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David Zipper

David Zipper is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, where he examines the interplay between urban policy and new mobility technologies. David’s perspective on urban development is rooted in his experience working within city hall as well as being a venture capitalist, policy researcher, and startup […]

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Tangier Barnes Wright

Tangier Barnes Wright is passionate about environmental justice and brings over a decade of project management and community engagement experience in lower-income communities and communities of color. In her current role, Tangier manages PeopleForBikes’ participation in the Better Bike Share Partnership. She is honored to be supporting the efforts of communities across the nation to […]

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Claudia Preciado

Claudia is a transportation planner that is passionate about improving sustainability, livability, and mobility in cities. As Director of Engagement in 2022, Claudia led NACTO’s strategy and approach to engaging members, advancing our goal to connect, challenge, and champion the city transportation professionals working towards equitable, sustainable mobility policy and people-centered street design. She brings […]

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Veronica O. Davis

Veronica O. Davis, P.E. is a self-described transportation nerd. She believes all people should have access to safe, reliable, and affordable transportation. She has 20 years of experience in civil engineering and planning. She is currently the Director of Transportation and Drainage Operations for the City of Houston. Director Davis serves 2.3 million residents in […]

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Lisa Marie Glover

Lisa Marie Glover is an accomplished and results-oriented professional with 15+ years’ experience in leading multiple projects within transportation industry. Stellar track record of devising cost-effective and environment friendly transportation strategies to improve mobility and accessibility while reducing congestion. Expert in designing and executing sustainable transportation infrastructure plans. Excel at directing operations and maintenance of […]

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Benjamin Restrepo

My name is Benjamin Restrepo, I graduated from the University of Connecticut in December 2012 with a degree in Civil Engineering, I am a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Florida and I have over 9 years of engineering work experience working for FDOT, WSDOT, City of Austin and the City of Fort Lauderdale.  […]

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Stefan Winkler

Stefan co-designed and launched Seattle’s free-floating, scooter share, pilot program and leads community engagement and initiatives to support the 1st/last mile needs of Seattle’s Environmental Justice Communities. Prior to SDOT he co-founded two marketing firms and helped grow early micromobility pioneers, like ofo and gotcha.

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Tim Gill

Tim Gill is a global advocate for children’s outdoor play and mobility, and an independent scholar, writer and consultant. He is the author of No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society (described in the New York Times as “a handbook for the movement for freer, riskier play”) and Urban Playground: How child-friendly planning and […]

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Hamzat Sanai

Hamzat Sani (he/him) has played a pivotal role in shifting the consciousness of, inspiring, and even building spaces and resources at the intersection of culture, cycling, and community building. He is a writer, advisor, and experienced leader.  You can find his written work in the Afro-American newspaper, Washington City Paper, equity work across the cycling […]

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LaKeisha Henderson

LaKeisha Henderson is a creative problem solver, planner, designer, and cyclist.  She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Morgan State University’s City and Regional Planning program.  Her professional journey allowed her to chart a path among respected Architecture and Engineering firms, federal agencies such […]

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Coreata R. Houser

Coreata R. Houser (he/him), serves as the Manager of Neighborhood Investment and Business Diversity for the City of Birmingham. He is focused on fulfilling Mayor Woodfin’s vision of creating an inclusive economy by leading the City’s VITAL program, an inclusive procurement program, and the City’s 2021 disparity study. Coreata created and leads the City’s first […]

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Jay-Marie Hill

A sought-after activist, musician, cyclist, educator, and “creative mind asking the questions that will shape the future of culture”.  Hill holds degrees from the University of Southern California and Stanford University including African-American Studies. Jay-Marie lives a life designed to help our world ascend beyond gendered and racialized norms.  Hill’s speaking and performing engagements have […]

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Rose Luma

Rose Luma is a Certified 500hr Yoga Instructor and Health Coach who has used her practice to create and sustain supportive environments for behavior change. She has used evidence-based coaching skills, assisted with problem-solving, set health-related goals in the areas of nutrition, exercise, and stress management, and collaborated with members to develop and implement effective […]

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Aidil Ortiz

Aidil Ortiz is a tribe member of SpiritHouse, a multigenerational Black women- led cultural organizing tribe with a rich legacy of using art, culture and media to support the empowerment and transformation of communities most impacted by racism, poverty, gender inequity, criminalization and incarceration. She is also the principal at Aidilisms, a consultancy focused on […]

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Dale McKeel

Dale McKeel has served as the Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the City of Durham and Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO since 2006. Over the past 30 years, McKeel has also worked as executive director of Scenic North Carolina and transportation planner for the Town of Carrboro.

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Linda Rae Murray MD, FACP

Murray has spent her career serving the medically underserved. She has worked in a variety of settings including practicing Occupational Medicine at a Workers Clinic in Canada, residency director for Occupational Medicine at Meharry Medical College, and bureau chief for the Chicago Department of Health under Mayor Harold Washington. She worked as medical director of […]

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Warren Logan

Warren Logan serves as the Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations for the Mayor’s Office of Oakland. Warren works closely with the City’s Department of Transportation, Public Works Department and other Bay Area public agencies to develop strategies that advance the city’s vision for safe and sustainable transportation for everyone. Through his Interagency work, […]

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Mitchell S. Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson’s debut novel The Residue Years received wide critical praise. Jackson is the winner of a Whiting Award. His novel also won The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for The Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN / Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, and the […]

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, LFAPA, Hon AIA

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, LFAPA, Hon AIA, is a social psychiatrist and professor of urban policy and health at The New School. Since 1986, she has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities, with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. From her research, […]

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Chiara Fasi

Chiara Fasi breathes new life into traditional live string performances. Through a unique blend of Classical, Jazz, R&B, Hip-Hop and Electronic Music, she leaves the audience with experience they will never forget. She began playing violin at the age of 11 and graduated from Florida International University with a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance. […]

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Amanda Howell

Amanda Howell is a project manager at the Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. She conducts technical research on the impacts of emerging transportation technologies on cities with expertise in e-commerce and new urban freight. She holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University and was the project […]

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Nico Larco

Nico Larco, AIA is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Oregon where he is the Director of the Urbanism Next Center and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities Institute. Urbanism Next is focused on how technological advances such as new mobility, autonomous vehicles, e-commerce and the sharing economy are changing city […]

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Beatriz Rodrigues Andrade

Beatriz Rodrigues Andrade is an Architect and Urban Designer with several years of experience and in 2017 joined the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) in Fortaleza. Currently, works as the Urban Design Coordinator supporting the cities of Fortaleza, Recife, and Salvador. Prior to joining the Initiative, Beatriz worked in Public Services and Conservation Department serving […]

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Kenyatta McLean

Kenyatta McLean is a strategist and facilitator interested in neighborhood resource access and heritage conservation. As an economic development practitioner, she developed strategy, engagement plans, and commercial corridor focused programming for multiple neighborhood revitalization projects in New York City. Kenyatta is a founding member of BlackSpace Urbanist Collective and currently serves as the Board Co-chair. […]

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Kate Selden

Kate Selden works in Affordable Housing Development at Los Sures, a community organization in Brooklyn. Kate is also a Forefront Fellow with the Urban Design Forum where she is investigating how New York City can advance economic democracy and racial justice while leveraging investment in climate action, infrastructure, and new industries that generate wealth in […]

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Giovania Tiarachristie

Born and raised in an immigrant, working-class household, Giovania Tiarachristie (they/them) is dedicated to centering the margins to create systemic change for more just and equitable places. Giovania currently works as an Equity and Social Justice consultant, facilitator, and coach, carrying more than eight years of experience in racial equity initiatives and cultural competency-building in […]

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Jodi Callan

Jodi Callan is a Project Manager with Transportation Services’ Policy & Innovation Unit at the City of Toronto. She has been a passionate member of the Toronto Public Service since 2001, keenly focusing on strategic program development and policy implementation with a nimble touch. Jodi’s experience spans several different disciplines including the StreetARToronto program and […]

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David Carson Lipscomb

David Carson Lipscomb is the Curbside Management Planner at the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). In this role, David is responsible for facilitating the safe and efficient transfer of people and goods to and from the curbside. His major projects include planning and evaluating motorcoach parking, managing DDOT’s pick-up/drop-off (PUDO) zone pilot program, parking sign […]

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Ángela María Lozada

Coach, facilitator, speaker, and consultant with more than 12 years of experience. M.A (honors)  in Anthropology from  Université de Paris V La Sorbonne, an expert in mindfulness, Human Resources development as well as in leading, designing and facilitating projects for organizational, social and community wellbeing.

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Ginny Browne
Anita Budhraja

I’m an organization development consultant who runs rapid strategic planning, facilitates creative online meetings, and manages remote teams for social change organizations, making them stronger than before the pandemic. I bring 15 years of leadership in nonprofit and private sector organizations, along with 8 years living and breathing cooperation in residential intentional communities. I work […]

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Alia Lahlou

Alia engages individuals and groups to achieve more connection, honesty, and depth, in service to holistic social change and liberation. Her work has taken her around the world and focuses on conflict transformation and mediation; leadership development; collaborative workplaces; identity; processes of deep listening, visioning, and reflection; and community building.

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Debra Kidney

After a multifaceted career which included working for the City of Portland, organizing and advocacy for a public employee union, and providing training and leadership development for a large union, I retired to continue doing the work I love most: social justice, racial equity, team building, facilitation, plus program development and implementation. I describe myself […]

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Cata Romo

Cata loves collaborative processes and asking questions. While Cata’s work moves across many fields, collective conversation is at the center of her work. From Social Practice in Museums, and working on Environmental Justice campaigns, to Community Murals and Urban Economic Development, Cata facilitates spaces where stakeholders can progress on their project, goal and connectivity.

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Elif Cadoux

Elif Cadoux (they/them/theirs) is a social justice facilitator, collaborative artist, and writer based in Philadelphia, PA. Their artwork and professional practice center embodied politics, creative learning, and liberatory relationships. Elif’s experiences in the University of Michigan’s Program on Intergroup Relations Education, survivor healing and anti-violence work, youth development, and participatory theater inform their anti-oppression facilitation […]

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Susan Loucks

Susan Loucks designs and facilitates processes for change, planning, skill building, and organizational improvement, with particular attention to broad and effective participation and power dynamics within organizations. Susan has convened and facilitated many multi-stakeholder decision making processes in sectors ranging from natural resources to employment for people with disabilities. A longtime resident of Boston, she […]

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Scott Curry

Scott Curry is the Active Transportation Coordinator for the City of Charlotte. In that role he oversees the City’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Programs and serves as the Planning Manager for the Cross Charlotte Trail. Scott played a key role in the creation of Charlotte’s Vision Zero Action Plan, and he is leading the development of […]

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Julianne Sabula

Julianne Sabula is Strategic Planning & Programming Manager for the Salt Lake City Transportation Division. She has 17 years of experience in transportation, financial, land use and environmental planning and holds degrees in Urban Planning and Cultural Anthropology. Her current initiatives include implementation of the Salt Lake City Transit Master Plan, development of a project […]

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Noel Pond-Danchik

Noel Pond-Danchik is a Transportation Planner for Oakland’s Department of Transportation (OakDOT). She works to make walking and rolling in Oakland safer, more accessible, and more fun and she currently co-chair’s OakDOT’s Racial Equity Team.

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Jean Crowther

Jean Crowther, AICP has more than fifteen years of experience fostering change and innovation in cities and regions across the U.S. She is a Principal with Alta Planning + Design and leads the firms emerging mobility practice, working at the intersection of transportation and technology. Her outcomes-oriented approach to planning and commitment to reducing mobility […]

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Mike Sawyer

Mr. Sawyer has over 25 years of experience in transportation engineering work in the private sector as well as the local, state, regional, tribal, and federal levels of government. He currently serves as the City Transportation Engineer for the City of Richmond, VA and is designated as the City’s Vision Zero Coordinator. Previously, he served […]

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Ashwini Chhabra

Ashwini Chhabra is a Co-founder and Principal of Electric Avenue, a public affairs consultancy whose mission is to accelerate the transition to human scale, zero-emission urban transport. He has previously held roles as Head of Public Affairs at Bird, a pioneer in the shared micromobility industry; and as Head of Policy Development at Uber, where […]

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Louis Pappas

Louis is a Co-founder and Principal at Electric Avenue. He served for 5 years in the Obama-Biden White House, first in public procurement policy and eventually on transport and logistics as an advance aide to President Obama. He helped found the RFP response teams at Via Transportation and at Bird, where he most recently led […]

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Melinda Hanson

Melinda is Co-founder and Principal at Electric Avenue, a public affairs and mobility policy firm whose mission is to accelerate the transition to human-scale, zero-emission mobility. She’s spent her career working at the intersection of transport and climate, including as Head of Sustainability at Bird, Deputy Director at NACTO’s Global Designing Cities Initiative, and Portfolio […]

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Siddharth Shah

Siddharth Shah is a Planner + Engineer at Sam Schwartz with expertise in data analysis and project delivery of traffic safety improvement projects. Mr. Shah works closely with the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) on the Vision Zero Chicago program. He is involved in the planning, designing, and implementing improvements to equitably make Chicago streets […]

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Po Sun

Po Sun is a Senior Planner at Sam Schwartz specializing in communicating complex ideas and plans through thoughtful design strategies that help communities make informed decisions. He has over six years of public and private sector experience, managing and performing numerous transportation planning studies that designing Complete Streets to provide equitable and safe environments for […]

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Lian Farhi

Lian Farhi is a Senior Planner at Sam Schwartz specializing in public space design, complete streets, and placemaking. She possesses a multidisciplinary background and years of experience practicing architecture, urban design and multi-modal transportation planning. Ms. Farhi has designed, implemented, and managed a range of real-world projects to create safe, livable, and future-ready streets.

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Alex Hanson

Alex Hanson is a Senior Planner at Sam Schwartz who works with cities across the country to better connect their transportation policies and street design to community goals like safety, resiliency, and equity. Alex specializes in helping cities translate their mobility goals into meaningful performance metrics and creating new organizational processes and structures to better […]

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Donna Williams

Donna C. Williams is a mayoral appointee and serves as the Administrator of the Department of Economic & Community Development for Mayor Andy Berke in Chattanooga, TN. Her department includes several divisions: Community Development & Housing, Economic & Workforce Development, Land Development Office, Regional Planning Agency, Public Art, Open Spaces, Code Enforcement, Real Property & […]

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Alex Johnston

Alex Johnston is a civic designer and social entrepreneur. In 2014, Alex founded Cities Reimagined, a civic design firm that employs principles of design to solve complex challenges in urban cities. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics with a Master’s Degree in Cities. Alex started her career as a social worker, […]

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Jay Decker
Eric Burkman

Eric Burkman, AICP, is the MBTA’s Director of Transit Priority, who will be supporting the agency in engaging municipalities and improving bus transit priority across the system. Eric is leading a new Transit Priority Team focused on street infrastructure changes (bus lanes, queue jumps, signal operations, bus-on-shoulder, etc.) that improve bus operations. His team will […]

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Chris O’Claire

Christina O’Claire is pleased to serve King County Metro, the nation’s eighth-largest transit system, which was named APTA’s Outstanding Public Transportation System for 2018. Chris steered the creation of Metro Connects, the agency’s long-range plan for doubling transit ridership over the next 25 years. As Director of the Mobility Division, her role is to oversee […]

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Bobby Hunter

Bobby Hunter is the Acting Operational Foreperson of the Operations Division at the City of Cambridge Traffic, Parking, + Transportation Department. In this role, Bobby is oversees sign installation, meter installation and repair, and pavement markings. In the 30 years since Bobby began his career with the City of Cambridge, he has held a variety […]

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Patrin Watanatada

Believing that great ideas—smartly communicated—can change the world, Patrin’s professional focus is helping organisations use knowledge to make a bigger social impact. She joined BvLF in 2015 to set up the Knowledge for Policy team to develop and share policy and programming ideas to better serve babies, toddlers and the people who care for them. She […]

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Daniel Samaro

Daniel is a licensed professional Civil Engineer in California and part-time professor at Loyola Marymount University’s Civil Engineering department. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Loyola Marymount University and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business. Currently, Daniel is the Division Manager for Vision Zero Design at the Los Angeles […]

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Becca Hughes

Becca is a Senior Transportation Planner with the City of Minneapolis Department of Public Works.  Becca has over eighteen years of professional planning experience, with nearly fifteen of those as a planner for the City of Minneapolis in transportation, land use, urban design, preservation, and environmental planning.  Becca has led and collaborated on a variety of […]

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Matthew Kohut is the managing partner of KNP Communications. He has prepared CEOs, elected officials, entrepreneurs, ambassadors, scientists, and best-selling authors for events ranging from television appearances to board meetings to TED talks. He also leads KNP’s development of customized training and coaching programs for corporations, universities, and nonprofit organizations. Matt has held appointments at […]

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Amar Mohite, as the Director of Planning & Infrastructure for Harris County Precinct One, leads the development and coordination of multi-modal transportation and infrastructure projects. Recent projects include development of 17 miles of high-comfort bikeway network within City of Houston and 21 miles of trails and bikeways in Precinct One Park. Mr. Mohite previously led […]

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Antoine Belaieff

Antoine Belaieff is the Program Sponsor, Fare Integration at Metrolinx. He works to coordinate and align fare-related initiatives internally and in collaboration with regional transit agencies. Originally from Geneva, Switzerland, but in Canada for over 25 years, Antoine is a Professional Planner who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from McGill University in Montreal, a Master’s […]

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Amanda O’Rourke

Amanda O’Rourke is the Executive Director of 8 80 Cities. She was a key architect of the 8 80 concept, and has been an integral driving force in the development and growth of the organization for the last 13 years. She has worked on numerous local and international projects that put people at the center […]

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Edward Tang

Edward Tang is an Assistant Engineer with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). His passion for intelligent transportation systems drew him to the Transit Engineering/SFgo group, where he has worked extensively on the planning and implementation of various technologies to improve transportation in San Francisco, such as transit signal priority (TSP). In the past […]

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Amina Yasin

Amina Yasin is Co-Chair of the Canadian Institute of Planners Social Equity Committee. She currently lives in New Westminster and works as an Urban Planner in lower mainland, British Columbia. Her interest and research commitments have actively embraced her unique professional and lived-experiences to advocate for an increased emphasis on responsive, equitable and inclusive planning. […]

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Monica G. Tibbits-Nutt

Monica G. Tibbits-Nutt, AICP, LEED AP BD+C is the Executive Director of the 128 Business Council. Working in regional planning and transportation, Monica’s areas of specialty are transportation planning, urban design, and sustainability. Her work experience includes public sector transit planning at both the MBTA Advisory Board and as Executive Director of TransitWorks. In addition, […]

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Ariel Ward

Ariel Ward is a transportation engineer and planner by day and all things creative by night. A proud alumna of Howard University, she is inspired by community, compassion, and culture. Through community-based transportation planning, Ariel has sought to understand how urban planning and engineering can be used to generate solutions in communities where it once […]

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Carlos Javier Vega

Carlos Javier Vega (Lima 1981) is an Architect based in Lima, Peru. Since 2015 he is the Director of the Public Spaces Program at Proyecto Alto Perú (www.altoperu.org), which promotes human cohesion within -at risk- communities in Lima, through the collective detection of available resources or “richness”, the development of -daily based- relational frameworks and […]

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Brian Gould

Brian Gould is a Senior Transportation Design Engineer with the City of Vancouver, BC, and a portfolio emphasizing downtown street design, cycling, and public space. Brian’s recent project work includes protected bike lanes on Richards, Drake, Smithe, Nelson, Beatty, and Cambie as design lead, with detailed design for six downtown protected intersections underway and involvement […]

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Allan Klugman

Allan is a Principal Professional Engineer with the City of Minneapolis Department of Public Works specializing in traffic infrastructure design and operations. In his almost 40-year career he has designed hundreds of traffic signals, has managed major ITS installations and has led City efforts in developing new traffic signal treatments for pedestrian, bicycle and transit […]

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Peter Eccles

Peter Eccles is a Transportation Planner at the City of Houston’s Planning and Development Department. From crosswalks to freeway corridors, he coordinates across Houston’s constellation of agencies, community groups and advocacy organizations to support projects that broaden multimodal options and have robust public buy-in. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Vassar […]

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Ryan Vanderputten

Ryan Vanderputten, P.Eng. is the Director of Transportation Planning and currently oversees the development of plans and recommended actions to best serve the city’s transportation needs. As a leader, he is passionate about delivering transportation systems that are customer focused, aligned with smart growth principles and supportive of all modes of travel. Having worked at […]

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Saul Billingsley

Saul Billingsley is Executive Director of the FIA Foundation. He is a Trustee of the International Road Assessment Programme and serves on the Steering Committee of the new UN Road Safety Trust Fund.

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Annette Darrow

Annette Darrow has been a transit industry professional for over 25 years.  She has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  While working on her degree she took a job at UMASS Transit learning many aspects of public-transit operations; from driving to training, customer service, dispatching, and supervising.  This foundation provided […]

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Matt Eierman

Matt Eierman is with the City of Sacramento Parking Services Division and has served as the City’s Parking Division Manager since 2013, overseeing a staff of 142 employees who provide support as unit managers, parking lot personnel, parking enforcement officers, parking meter operations, city right-of-way management, maintenance and custodial staff. Mr. Eierman has also served […]

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Dr. Eileen de Villa

Dr. Eileen de Villa is the Medical Officer of Health for Toronto Public Health, Canada’s largest local public health agency that provides public health programs and services to 2.9 million residents. Dr. de Villa received her degrees as Doctor of Medicine and Master of Health Science (MHSc) (Health Promotion) from the University of Toronto and […]

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Jack Skillen

Jack has worked for 15 years in fields of urban regeneration and sustainable transport since completing his MSc in Cities, Space and Society. He is focused on achieving the placeshaping strategy for the London Bridge BID, including a vision for cycling, the ‘Low Line’ – London’s new walking destination – and a sustainability strategy to […]

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Naz Capano

Naz Capano is the Manager of Transportation Policy and Innovation in Transportation Services with the City of Toronto. He has over 30 years of experience in areas focused on infrastructure asset management, traffic and road operations, transportation policy and environmental initiatives related to climate change and adaption. Naz has guided a variety of strategic initiatives […]

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Stephanie Dock

Stephanie Dock manages the  District (of Columbia) Department of Transportation’s Research Program. The Research Program supports all aspects of the agency’s work and over the past 7 years, Stephanie has been involved in a range of projects from pervious concrete to connected and autonomous vehicles. Some of her largest efforts have been the parkDC value pricing parking […]

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Ann Shikany

Ann Shikany is an infrastructure-investment expert and advocate, having spent her career working to enhance transportation and clean energy investments at federal, state, and local levels. At NRDC, she advocates for low-carbon transportation solutions at the federal and state levels and serves as a member of the ACCC transportation team—developing peer-to-peer learning opportunities and driving […]

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Julia Friedlander

Julia Friedlander’s career in New York City and San Francisco as a public policy architect, manager and lawyer drew her into many periods of transformational change, including the public health crisis of HIV, restructuring of the telecommunications market and emergence of high speed internet infrastructure, the LGBT civil rights and marriage equality movements, and the […]

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Graham Robinson

Graham has worked for Transport for London (TfL) for over 16 years in a variety of both operational and strategic roles. In 2003 Graham joined TfL and worked on the implementation of the Congestion Charge scheme, which went live in February 2003. As Contracts and Policy Monitoring Advisor, he was part of a team of […]

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Aaron de Rozario

Aaron de Rozario is Chief Executive Officer of Commercial Passenger Vehicles Victoria. He is responsible for implementing Victoria’s commercial passenger vehicle reforms and its new regulatory environment; and regulating Victoria’s commercial passenger vehicle industry. Aaron has been involved in the regulation of commercial passenger vehicles since 2012 and has advised the Western Australian and Victorian […]

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Tanya Davis

Tanya Davis, P.Eng., PTOE is the Manager of the Strategic Transportation Planning Program with the Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. Tanya is a certified Professional Transportation Operations Engineer with over 18 years of experience in transportation planning and engineering. She is the Project Manager for HRM’s Integrated Mobility Plan. She has worked in both […]

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Anne Sherwood

Anne Sherwood, P.Eng. is the first female Senior Design Engineer with the Halifax Regional Municipality. A skilled project manager and senior civil design engineer, Anne is responsible for managing the municipality’s capital program including streets and roads, active transportation and transit projects. She has lead several innovative projects in the Halifax Region including the North […]

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Kenny Malone

Kenny Malone is a correspondent for NPR’s Planet Money podcast. Before that, he was a reporter for WNYC’s Only Human podcast. Before that, he was a reporter for Miami’s WLRN. And before that, he was a reporter for his friend T.C.’s homemade newspaper, Neighborhood News. Kenny’s stories have investigated everything from abuse in Florida’s assisted living facilities to health hackers building their own […]

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Lynda Lopez

Lynda Lopez is a transportation reporter for Streetsblog Chicago focusing on transit oriented development, displacement, and bike equity. She is also the Active Transportation Alliance’s Fair Fares Organizer, a campaign to bring discounted fares for low-income transit riders in the Chicagoland region. As an avid bicyclist, Lynda was selected as the Southwest Side representative for […]

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Anthony Eggert

Anthony Eggert is a director at ClimateWorks Foundation which mobilizes philanthropy to solve the climate crisis and ensure a prosperous future. Anthony comes to ClimateWorks with 20 years of public and private sector experience working on clean energy technologies and policies. Prior to ClimateWorks, Anthony served as the founding director of the UC Davis Policy […]

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Leticia Sabino

Graduated in Urban Design and City Planning at UCL (University College London), with undergrad in Business Administration at FGV-EAESP and post-graduation in Creative Economy and Creative cities. Founder and director of SampaPé!, NGO focused in promoting walkable cities and improve walking experience, member of International Federation of Pedestrian (IFP).  Co-founder of Latin American Network for Walkable Cities and […]

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Demetrio Scopelliti

Demetrio Scopelliti is an architect who loves cities and believes in urban design as a tool for innovation and change. Currently, he is Director of Urban Planning and Public Space at the City of Milan’s Agency for Mobility, Environment and Territory (AMAT). Since 2016, he has been Advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, […]

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Dave Twaddle

With over 25 years of experience in various Transportation related roles, Dave Twaddle, is currently the Director of Permits and Enforcement within the City of Toronto’s Transportation Services Division. He has worked on an array of projects associated with improving the City’s traffic congestion as well as overseeing all permits related to development applications & […]

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Arielle Fleisher

Arielle supports SPUR’s efforts to create a high-quality transportation system in the Bay Area. Previously, she worked at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, where she managed a number of bicycle and pedestrian safety education programs in support of the city’s Vision Zero policy. In addition she developed programs, plans and policies to encourage travel […]

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Tim Lawson

Tim Lawson is a Senior Transportation Engineer with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). For the past nineteen years, he has worked to improve the operation and safety of TTC’s buses and streetcars, through transportation engineering. Tim has been involved in various transit priority initiatives, including the extensive development and implementation of transit signal priority (TSP). […]

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Peter Furth

Peter Furth earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees at MIT.Dr. Furth has also both studied and taught in the Netherlands, focusing on advanced practices in transit priority, demand-responsive traffic signal control, transit operations control, bicycle transportation, and safe street design. He has authored more than 50 publications, including the winner of the TRB Traffic […]

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Joel Meyer

Joel is a transportation planner with Austin Transportation Department’s Vision Zero Program. Joel works on a number of strategic initiatives within ATD including the development of a new Speed Management Program, citywide pedestrian crossing enhancements and crash data analysis. Prior to joining the Vision Zero team Joel served as Pedestrian Coordinator and was the lead […]

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Tracey Lin

As a senior transportation planner in the Planning Division at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Tracey leads long-range transit projects that aim to improve transit services to critical neighborhoods throughout the City. With a heavy background in outreach and service planning and a personal interest in equity issues, Tracey led the day-to-day project […]

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Laurence Lui

Laurence is a Senior Planner with the TTC’s Strategy & Service Planning department, part of a team that monitors and adjusts existing bus, streetcar and subway services, liaises with diverse stakeholders on various transit topics, and assesses proposals for short- and long-term transit changes in Toronto. He is currently the lead for streetcar service planning […]

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Thalia Leng

Thalia is a senior planner with the Livable Streets subdivision of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). Thalia’s work at the SFMTA focuses on implementing bicycle and pedestrian improvements throughout San Francisco as well as coordinating larger streetscape projects such as the Polk Streetscape Project and the 5th Street Improvement Project. Thalia is also […]

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Arthur Getman

Arthur Getman has been with NYCDOT since 2014, currently serving as Deputy Director of the Safety Analytics and Mapping Unit in the Transportation Planning and Management Division. In this role Arthur contributes analytic support for Vision Zero project, policy, and program development. He is co-author of several safety studies including “Safer Cycling: Bicycle Ridership and […]

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Stephanie Shaw

Stephanie Shaw is Chief of Staff of the Street Improvement Programs sub-division at the New York City Department of Transportation. Stephanie helps oversee NYC DOT’s Bicycle Unit, Pedestrian Unit, and Public Space Unit, as well as the agency’s ambitious Street Improvement Program which implements over 100 safety projects annually. This is Stephanie’s second stint at […]

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Lisa Treese

Ms. Treese is a registered landscape architect in the State of Missouri. She has been with the City of Kansas City, Missouri since 2012. She started her landscape architectural career with Wallace, Roberts & Todd (WRT), and later, Vireo. Ms. Treese holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture with a secondary major in Natural Resources and […]

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Mary Rowe

Mary is an impassioned civic leader with diverse experience in the business, government, not-for-profit and philanthropy sectors in Canada and the US. Over 30 years, Mary has been a steady advocate and champion for place-based approaches to building livable and resilient cities, and community-driven local economies. She has led campaigns, organizations, initiatives, and companies spanning […]

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Aditya Kumar

Aditya Kumar is Executive Director of Development Action Group (DAG), based in South Africa. Adi has extensive experience in the development sector having worked across the globe in India, South Africa, Lebanon, United States, Kenya and Uganda.  Previously he worked as Head of Design and Planning for Nahr El Bared Palestinian Camp Reconstruction Project with […]

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Rolf Eisinger

Rolf Eisinger recently moved to Denver where he managers the City and County of Denver’s Vision Zero program. Rolf was car free while he earned his BA at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Then, he moved to Louisville, KY and earned a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Louisville. After graduate school Rolf worked for Louisville Metro […]

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Catherine Ciarlo

Catherine Ciarlo is the Active Transportation & Safety Division Manager for the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Her portfolio includes Portland’s Vision Zero initiative, new mobility implementation (including bike share and E-scooters), the city’s Safe Routes to School program, and other transportation demand management activities and open streets events. Prior to joining PBOT, Catherine was a […]

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Andreas Piller

Andreas has been a planner with the City of Bellevue Transportation Department for eight years. He has managed bike share in the city since 2017, from development of the framework for the one year pilot through its evaluation and transition into the current annual permit. Responding to community feedback, the program has prioritized the designation of […]

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Adrian Leung

Adrian Leung works at SFMTA as the Bikeshare and Bike Parking Program Manager, and the Scootershare Policy Evaluation Lead. He has worked in bicycle/pedestrian planning and advocacy for 12 of the last 16 years, arriving at the SFMTA after working at non-profits, private firms, and other public agencies. He was the first person to call […]

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Meg Young

Meg Young is the Shared Mobility Coordinator for the Baltimore City Department of Transportation Transit Bureau. In this position she led a cross agency and public evaluation of Baltimore’s Dockless Vehicle Pilot. She now oversees the Dockless Vehicle Permit program and coordination with other modes, such as transit and biking. Previously Meg worked as the […]

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Juan Pablo Bocarejo Suescun

Juan Pablo is a civil engineering graduate from the University of the Andes and holds a Doctorate in Transport from the University of East Paris. He was the co-founder of the University of the Andes Sustainability Study Group, where he directed research with many international partners, generating relevant publications in major scientific magazines. Bocarejo participated […]

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Sheyda Saneinejad

Sheyda is a professional engineer and has been with Transportation Services at the City of Toronto for over 8 years. Most recently, she lead the development of Vision Zero 2.0, City of Toronto’s updated road safety plan. Sheyda has been involved in several aspects of planning, designing, operating and monitoring the right of way for vulnerable road users. […]

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Oni Blair

Oni K. Blair is a public policy professional who has worked on international, national, and local issues. Oni serves as executive director of LINK Houston, a non-profit organization that advocates for equity in transportation so that all people can reach opportunity. Leveraging community engagement and data analysis, LINK Houston works to ensure better transit; improve […]

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Alex Demisch

Alex Demisch is the Data Analytics and Strategy Manager for the Sustainable Streets Division at the SFMTA.  He is working to improve how the division acquires, manages, and uses data to support a range of functions, including managing dockless mobility, digitizing curb and street assets, and optimizing enforcement resources.  He builds on ten years of […]

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Samantha Leger

Samantha is a Transportation Planner in WSP Canada’s Planning and Advisory Services Department. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Waterloo in Environmental Studies, majoring in Urban Planning and specializing in Urban Design. Since joining WSP, Samantha pursued opportunities in sustainable mobility and inclusive transportation planning. She is the lead author of WSP’s […]

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Hayley Richardson

As Senior Communications Associate at TransitCenter, Hayley translates wonky transportation concepts into compelling and digestible stories. She directs TransitCenter’s video series, designs reports, and writes for the blog. She is an alumna of the George Washington University and Pratt Institute.

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Saba Long

Saba Long is the founder of Obelisk Strategies, an Atlanta-based public relations agency with a focus on civic and corporate communications strategy. With more than a decade of experience, she has provided communications expertise to numerous political campaigns and ballot initiatives, counseled tech startups, and served as a liaison for a White House advisory panel […]

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Romina Castillo

A Mexico City native, Romina Castillo has always been fascinated by urban communities and their relationship with the built environment. For the last five years, Romina has worked closely with Chicago communities in different capacities. Her focus and experience has primarily been on place-based, community-driven projects in the non-profit sector to advocate for equitable mobility, […]

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Brad Ross

Brad Ross is the Chief Communications Officer for the City of Toronto, having rejoined the City in January 2019 (he was with the City from 2000-2008) after almost 11 years at the Toronto Transit Commission where he led public and employee communications, as well as reputation management, which included developing strategies around transparency and accountability, […]

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Shagithya Deivendran

Shagithya Deivendran has been working in policy development within the transportation sector since 2014. Her areas of focus have been stakeholder engagement, government relations, research and regulation. Shagithya is currently a Project Lead on Automated Vehicles for the City of Toronto. She has contributed to a number of AV-related initiatives for the City including a review […]

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James Pasternak
Tien-Tien Chan

Tien-Tien (“Tim Tim”) Chan is the TDM Program Manager at the City of Austin Transportation Department. As the program manager, Tien-Tien is leading the efforts to develop the City’s TDM policies, planning, and programming to manage congestion and improve mobility by changing how we get around rather than trying to build our way out of […]

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Carolyn Kim

Carolyn Kim is the director of the transportation and urban solutions team with the Pembina Institute, Canada’s leading clean energy think tank. Carolyn leads policy research and engages with stakeholders and partners to advance solutions that respond to the most pressing transportation and planning issues, and that support the sustainable growth of Ontario’s economy and communities. […]

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Terry White

Terry White has been appointed by Executive Dow Constantine as the interim general manager of King County Metro, the Puget Sound region’s largest public transportation agency. Prior to COVID-19, Metro delivered more than 400,000 trips every weekday and roughly half of downtown Seattle commuters relied on transit. Metro provides bus, vanpool, and water taxi services, […]

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Gregg Lintern

As Chief Planner for the City of Toronto, Gregg is committed to leading the City Planning Division to making Toronto one of the world’s most liveable and equitable cities. In his 35 years of municipal planning, Gregg has held various roles and responsibilities in several different community planning districts across the City giving him a […]

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Michael Thompson

Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson is Chair of Toronto’s Economic and Community Development Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. Now in his fifth term as Councillor, Michael has earned a reputation as one of Toronto’s hardest working and most effective political leaders. Michael is known to his constituents as a community builder committed to […]

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David Pulsipher

David Pulsipher is a visionary and enthusiastic leader in the transportation planning field.  David leads Denver’s staff and planning efforts related to pedestrian and bicycle transportation in the City and County of Denver. David has spent the past 12 years in transportation planning, leading projects at the forefront of our industry, including: bicycle and pedestrian master plans, […]

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Dane Forlines

Dane Forlines has been involved in community development for nearly 20 years, both domestically and internationally as a consultant and in the non-profit sector.  Dane has a degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s degree in city and regional planning from the University of Memphis. He is currently an affiliate broker with Crye-Leike and […]

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Rebecca Bavinger

Becky Bavinger has been with the Public Health Department at Bloomberg Philanthropies since 2012. She works across several programs, including the Initiative for Global Road Safety, Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, Maternal and Reproductive Health Program, and Initiative to Prevent Drowning. Prior to joining Bloomberg Philanthropies, Becky co-founded a social enterprise based in Kolkata, India […]

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Greg McKnight

Greg has had roles in the private and public sector as a traffic engineer and transportation planner. He is a project manager leading the planning and implementation of King County Metro’s Bus Rapid Transit system, RapidRide, which Metro is committed to expanding throughout the county. Before joining Metro, Greg worked on a variety of transportation […]

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Ramses Madou

Ramses Madou is the Division Manager of Planning, Policy, and Sustainability for the Department of Transportation in the City of San José. At the City of San José Ramses leads a team of planners, engineers, policy specialists, data and model experts to plan the Citywide transportation system. His team is working to implement the ambitious mode […]

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Jonas Eliasson

Jonas Eliasson is visiting professor of transport systems at Linköping university and new Director of Transport Access at the Swedish National Transportation Administration. He was Director of the Stockholm City Transportation Administration 2016-2019 and professor of transport systems analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 2007-2016. His research interests focus on transport policy design […]

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Cat Criger

Cat Criger is an Indigenous Elder, Traditional Teacher and Knowledge Keeper. He is from the Cayuga Nation, Turtle Clan, as well as having some German and English ancestry.  Cat was taught through traditional methods to use Indigenous pedagogies, perspectives and philosophies when working with people. Cat has been working as an Indigenous Teacher and Knowledge Keeper for almost 30 years. […]

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Mayor John Tory

Born and raised in Toronto, Mayor Tory has spent his life giving back to the city he loves, through his tireless work in public, private sector and philanthropic roles. Elected as the 65th Mayor of Toronto in 2014 and re-elected in 2018, John Tory is making the city more liveable, affordable and functional. He has […]

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Jill Locantore

Jill Locantore is Executive Director of WalkDenver, a nonprofit organization committed to reclaiming Denver’s streets for people.  WalkDenver transforms public space through policy advocacy, tactical urbanism, and community partnerships to make Denver a place where our streets foster health, happiness, and opportunity for all. Previously, Jill served as Principal Planner for the Denver Regional Council of […]

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David Simor

David joined 8 80 Cities in August of 2016, after several years working at Toronto City Hall. An avowed lover of all things urban, he has helped co-ordinate numerous public realm and park revitalizations, planning studies, and neighbourhood improvement projects. Trained as an actor, David firmly believes listening is the first step towards creating inclusive, […]

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Kristyn Wong-Tam

Kristyn Wong-Tam was elected to Toronto City Council in 2010 and has an extensive career investing in the city through both the public and private sectors. She was an accomplished human rights advocate, entrepreneur, and supporter of the arts. Recognized for her focused advancement of diverse cultural and urban economic renewal, Kristyn was appointed to […]

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Janice Simsohn Shaw

Janice Simsohn Shaw is an adept, high-energy facilitator with 20 years of experience training foundation and social change leaders to be better partners, listeners, and givers. She is a passionate and vocal advocate for the power of communal learning and proudly serves her clients by helping them move their work forward in meaningful ways. In […]

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Desiree Williams-Rajee

Desiree established herself as a leader at the intersection of equity and environment while serving as the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability’s Equity Program Manager. The first position of its kind in the nation, her work had a national impact in public sector innovation on equity within the sustainability field. In 2016, […]

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Christopher Eaves

Chris Eaves is a PE with practice in public agencies in Texas, Nevada, and Washington State.  His career has ranged from field work to project design, and over the last five years he has managed Seattle’s freight transportation program, including rail, port and roadway modes.

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Keith Todd Kerman

Keith Todd Kerman is a Deputy Commissioner at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) and New York City’s first Chief Fleet Officer. Keith is an agency lead for Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities in NYC and is currently spearheading a series of safety initiatives for the City fleet. In […]

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Bianca Wylie

Bianca is an open government advocate with a dual background intechnology and public engagement. She is the co-founder of Tech ResetCanada and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International GovernanceInnovation in the Global Economy program. She worked for several yearsin the tech sector in operations, infrastructure, corporate training,and product management, most recently at […]

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Michael Schuerle

Michael has spent over a decade in civic tech. His first product was an online crime map built using open records requests and Google Maps in 2005.  That grew into open data advocacy and building civic services around real-time transportation, public safety, geocoding, and open data APIs.   He founded the Civic Data Alliance in Louisville with like-minded folks […]

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Jascha Franklin-Hodge

Jascha Franklin-Hodge is the Executive Director of the Open Mobility Foundation (OMF). The city-led foundation helps cities and industry collaborate to develop open source tools and data standards that support adoption and regulation of emerging mobility technology. He previously served in the cabinet of Mayor Martin J. Walsh as Boston’s Chief Information Officer, and lead […]

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Joseph Jerome

Joseph Jerome is Policy Counsel for the Privacy & Data Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology. His work focuses on the legal and ethical questions posed by smart technologies, artificial intelligence, and digital advertising, and he is interested in promoting better transparency and user control mechanisms around novel uses of information across the […]

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Jan Whittington

Dr. Jan Whittington is Associate Professor of the Department of Urban Design and Planning, at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research applies transaction cost economic theory to networked infrastructures, such as transportation, water, and communications systems, to internalize factors historically treated as external to transactions. Her publications include methodologies for greenhouse gas mitigation and resilience […]

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Alicia Posner

Alicia Posner is a Senior Project Manager at the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), within the Research, Implementation, and Safety unit. She manages the design, outreach, implementation, and evaluation of multiple street improvement projects per year as part of New York City’s Vision Zero Initiative. In addition to her work on street improvement […]

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Peter Bennett

Peter Bennett is a Transportation Specialist in San José, California with the Department of Transportation’s Bicycle & Pedestrian Program. He is currently leading the implementation of more than 30 miles of all ages & abilities bicycling facilities in downtown San José. Using quick-build techniques, the project takes advantage of scheduled pavement maintenance to upgrade to […]

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Katy Sawyer

Katy Sawyer is a Senior Project Manager in the City of Pittsburgh’s Traffic Bureau, where she oversees the engineering and construction of active transportation projects and manages the City’s traffic calming program.  She has over 14 years of public- and private- sector experience in the planning, design, and construction of multi-disciplinary transportation projects. Katy assists with the […]

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Merisa Gilman

Merisa Gilman was inspired to become a transportation planner through her interest in public art and is motivated by New York City’s ever-evolving use of public space. As a Senior Project Manager in the Pedestrian Projects Group at the New York City Department of Transportation, Merisa has successfully implemented various projects to improve safety and […]

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Kyle Gebhart

Kyle Gebhart is the Co-Deputy Director of Select Bus Service (SBS) in the Transit Development Group at the New York City Department of Transportation. He primarily works on developing the SBS program, NYC’s brand of Bus Rapid Transit. Since beginning at NYC DOT in 2014, Kyle has successfully launched B46 SBS on Utica Avenue, the […]

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Lily Brown

Lily Brown is a Transportation Planner on the Planning and Project Development team at the City of Oakland’s Department of Transportation. Lily works to create safe streets and enjoyable public space for all users and modes, with a focus on underserved Oaklanders. Lily’s work is guided by the belief that inclusive community engagement is the […]

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Jose Huizar
Mike Bonin
Nury Martinez
Blanka Bracic

Blanka Bracic’s goal is to increase people’s quality of life by offering everyday urban transportation options that are easy, safe, normal, healthy and fun. A recent achievement for Bracic was leading the three-year planning of Calgary’s 5.5km downtown cycle track pilot network through political approvals that ended in 2014. She created the monitoring and evaluation […]

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Lyndsey Nolan

Lyndsey is a passionate social justice and transportation advocate that has worked on a number of multi-sector partnerships to incorporate culturally-relevant community engagement into planning projects. In 2014, while completing her graduate studies, Lyndsey had the opportunity to work at the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) through the Randall Lewis Health Policy Fellowship. At […]

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Tia Plunkett-McQueen

Tia Plunkett-McQueen serves as Associate Director of Administrative Services with the D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT) and plays a key role in setting the human capital strategy for the agency. Since joining DDOT in 2016, Tia has transformed the delivery of HR services to provide increased visibility and  service delivery in managing employee relations, recruitment, […]

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Shreya Gadepalli

Shreya Gadepalli is one of the foremost urban mobility experts in India. She leads the Urban Works Institute—an Indian think-n-do tank that enriches the lives of people by helping cities create safe and engaging public spaces and develop green and inclusive mobility solutions. Ms. Gadepalli is the Founder Emeritus of the India Programme of the […]

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Laura Hakvoort

An active city is a vibrant city. Laura believes that sufficient and attractively designed space for physical activity enhances the appeal and quality of life. The Active city program in Amsterdam integrates expertise in the area of behavioral change with expertise of spatial design, supported by data analytics. As the coordinator of this program Laura […]

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Yohannes Legesse

Yohannes Dadi has grown up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and graduated from Haramaya University in Civil engineering. He completed Master of Technology degree in Transportation Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), New Delhi, India in July 2015. Before joining IITD, Yohannes was an instructor at Dire Dawa Institute of Technology, Civil engineering department. Yohannes is […]

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Hannah Silva is an Architect and Urban Designer graduated from Federal University of Ceará in Brazil. Hannah is working at the Fortaleza’s City Hall within the Public Services and Conservation Department in the Transportation and Traffic Immediate Action Plan (PAITT) with focus on Urban Design. The actions of this team are visibly transforming her city […]

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Laura Ballesteros

Laura Ballesteros is a young politician and sustainable leader, with 15 years of hard work in public and private sector. She is an expert in agenda setting, and policy and regulation, in urban affairs (Ex. Mobilty and Road Safety). Former Congresswoman at Mexico’s City Local Assambly (ALCDMX), she has a Bachelor in Political Science from […]

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Stephanie Ramirez

Stephanie Ramirez is a Los Angeles native with extensive experience in public policy, community outreach, government relations, and civic engagement. As Associate State Director of Advocacy for AARP California, she is responsible for driving the organization’s social mission, including fighting for issues that matter most to Californians 50+ and their families. Prior to joining AARP, […]

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Naomi Iwasaki

In 2019 Naomi started her planning and engagement firm, Naomi Iwasaki Consulting. She has since supported community organizations and public agencies with projects and initiatives centering marginalized communities and implementing transportation equity with change management strategies. Prior to that she worked as Deputy Director of Investing in Place, a Los Angeles-based transportation policy and equity […]

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Eric Garcetti

Eric Garcetti is a fourth-generation Angeleno and the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley — the son of public servants and the grandson and great-grandson of immigrants from Mexico and Eastern Europe — Mayor Garcetti’s life has been shaped by a deep commitment to the core values of justice, dignity, and […]

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Laurie Berman
Monique Earl

Monique Earl is the Assistant General Manager over Administration and Field Operations at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). Monique has more than twenty years experience in the public, private and not for profit sectors most notably in the area of public finance. Her career history with the City of Los Angeles spans the […]

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Ashley has 29 years’ broad experience in both the public and private sectors covering transportation planning, project planning, project delivery, business planning and management. Following ten years in consulting during which he moved from the UK to Toronto to establish and lead a new company office, he joined the City of Toronto in summer 2015 […]

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Tiffany-Ann Taylor

Tiffany-Ann Taylor is Deputy Director of Freight Programs, Education and Research for the Freight Mobility unit at the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT). Prior to working at NYC DOT, she worked for the New York City Economic Development Corporation on transformative projects that impact passenger transportation throughout New York City. Tiffany has […]

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Steve has been with the City of Minneapolis 25 years, primarily in traffic operations and planning.  Steve has participated in the event traffic operation planning that include events such as; the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the Republican National Convention, and the Super Bowl.  Steve was also involved in creating the Transportation Management Plans US […]

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Charlotte Castle

Charlotte is the Vision Zero & Neighborhood Programs Coordinator for the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation & Infrastructure Systems (oTIS). At oTIS, she supports the development of the City’s Vision Zero Action Plan and Updates, Vision Zero Task Force and sub-committees coordination, community engagement, and more. In addition to coordinating Vision Zero efforts, Charlotte manages the […]

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Jeff Marootian

Jeff Marootian is the Director of the District Department of Transportation where he has served since March 2017. Jeff leads the agency in its mission to create a safe and sustainable transportation system for the District of Columbia and is responsible for delivering on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s priorities to rebuild and modernize the city’s public […]

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Chava Kronenberg

Chava Kronenberg is the Pedestrian Manager for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and San Francisco’s Vision Zero Task Force Co-Chair. She is accountable for delivering excellent complete streets projects to reduce the annual injuries and fatalities that occur annually, especially for the City’s most vulnerable populations. Her most interesting capital projects in progress […]

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Brandie Lockett

Brandie Lockett’s passion for urban design inspires planning and development projects, whether urban, suburban or rural, to bring out vibrant opportunities in unlikely places. Her projects focus on envisioning underperforming and overlooked spaces into welcoming environments that help re-value land and revitalize neighborhoods in beauty, sustainability, and social well-being. In partnership with stakeholders, she provides […]

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Jacob Lieb

Jacob Lieb is currently Senior Director for  First/Last Mile Planning for LA Metro where he leads the agency’s efforts to improve conditions for travelers accessing Los Angeles County’s growing transit system.  In prior capacities at Metro, Jacob has had oversight for implementation of agency sustainability initiatives including producing a sustainability performance metrics and reports, and […]

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Stephen Tu

Stephen Tu is a Senior Manager at LA Metro, where he currently serves as Project Deputy to Metro’s NextGen Bus Study, a comprehensive approach to realign the bus network to be more relevant in today’s transportation landscape.  Stephen has led strategic initiatives within the Executive Office, large scale special event operations planning, and managed real-time […]

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Jessica Meaney

Jessica Meaney is the Founder and Executive Director of Investing in Place, an organization committed to transportation investments that strengthens communities. She is a transportation advocate who has been living car free in Los Angeles for over 20 years. Most recently, Jessica worked at the Safe Routes to School National Partnership on State and Regional […]

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Dhyana Quintanar Solares

Dhyana Quintanar Solares is a sustainable mobility, public space and urban design expert with over 10 years of experience in the public, private and non-governmental sectors in Mexico. She previously was the head of the Authority of the Public Space of Mexico City where she implemented various street, park, and plaza projects, road safety programs, […]

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Dr. Destiny Thomas

Dr. Destiny Thomas is a change agent and an anthropologist planner. Known as the Unurbanist Planner, she is the founder and CEO of Thrivance Group, a multi-regional, socially responsible, for-profit firm that works to make public spaces and public services safer, healthier and more accessible, especially for Black, Indigenous, and transgender people, as well as […]

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Hank Phan

Hank is a Transportation Planner in the Oakland Department of Transportation’s Planning & Project Development section. In addition to his work delivering transformative transportation improvements, Hank serves on OakDOT’s Racial Equity Team, whose mission is to address racial disparity both in Oakland and in the City workplace. Hank is the Community Engagement Manager for Let’s […]

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Evelyn Blumenberg

Evelyn Blumenberg’s research examines the effects of urban structure—the spatial location of residents, employment, and services—on economic outcomes for low-wage workers, and on the role of planning and policy in shaping the spatial structure of cities.  Her recent projects include analyses of trends in transit ridership, residential location and travel behavior of young adults, the […]

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Wilson Tam

Wilson Tam is a transportation planner and the lead analyst at the City of San Jose Department of Transportation. His focus is on long-range transportation planning, policy development, land use/transportation studies, data analytics, and modeling.  He served as the technical lead in making San Jose the fourth city in the state to shift its CEQA […]

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Hanaa Hamdi

Hanaa A. Hamdi, Ph.D., is currently the national Public Health Director at The Trust for Public Land, she directs the development of healthy and equitable communities. Dr. Hamdi is the former health commissioner for the City of Newark where she oversaw the Departments of Public Health and Human Services, Social & Environmental Services, and was […]

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Alissa Walker

Alissa Walker connects people with where they live through writing, speaking, and walking. As the urbanism editor at Curbed, she authors the column Word on the Street, highlighting the pioneering transit, clever civic design, and game-changing policy affecting our cities. Alissa has been named a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow for her writing on design […]

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Michelle Poyourow

Michelle Poyourow is a consultant in public transit and multi-modal planning and policy. As a Senior Associate, Michelle works directly with clients to deliver successful projects and products, from major public events to corridor-level plans. A skilled project manager, she has managed projects involving multiple public agencies, multiple firms, large and impassioned stakeholder groups and […]

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Jenna Hornstock

Jenna Hornstock joined LA Metro’s Countywide Planning and Development Department in 2011. She is currently the Executive Officer for Transit Oriented Communities, and manages Metro’s Joint Development, First/Last Mile Planning and Systemwide Design programs as well as the implementation of redevelopment activities at and around Union Station. Prior to joining Metro, Ms. Hornstock spent nearly […]

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Frank Ching

Frank has awarded the 2010 CPPA Parking Professional of the Year and the City of Santa Monica has awarded the 2011 CPPA Parking Program of the Year and the Los Angeles Metro has also awarded the 2017 CPPA Parking Program of the Year under his lead. Frank also received the National Parking Association Innovator of […]

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Mike Bagheri

Mike Bagheri is a Transportation Manager with the City of Pasadena heading the Complete Streets Division of Department of Transportation. Mike leads the department’s efforts in managing Active Transportation grant projects, development review process and collaboration with Planning and Public Works Departments on implementing City’s Complete Streets policies. Mike is a registered professional engineer in […]

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Anita Tang currently works as the Carshare Project Manager for the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation.  With 28 years of experience working with the City of Los Angeles, Anita has managed budgets and overseen contracts, ranging from $5,000 to $80 million, for various City departments.  With a grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB), she, along with BlueLA, […]

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Michelle Kinman

Leading the Transportation Electrification Partnership, Michelle manages the Zero Emissions Roadmap development, related stakeholder workshops and the technology showcase activities related to it. Michelle joins us with over 20 years of environmental advocacy experience. Most recently, she was the Clean Energy and Transportation Program Director at Environment California where she created and coordinated the Charge […]

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Guillermo Martinez, Jr., PE

Guillermo Martinez, Jr. is a Senior Transportation Engineer for the Port of Los Angeles where he manages the Port’s Transportation Improvement Program. This program consists of the planning, development, and design of transportation improvements in and around the port vicinity to improve the movement of goods through this international gateway. He received a Bachelor’s degree […]

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Sue Lai

Sue Lai is a Senior Transportation Engineer for the Port of Los Angeles where she manages the Port’s Transportation Improvement Program. This Program consists of the planning, development, and design of transportation improvements in and around the port vicinity to improve the movement of goods through this international gateway.  Recently, she successfully oversaw efforts to […]

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Esther is a planner who specialises in urban and street design.  She worked in local councils as a planner in and around London for 10 years before moving to the Greater London Authority in 2001 to work on the design and built environment elements of the London Plan.   In 2003 she moved the UK Government […]

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Carol Kong

Carol Kong, P.Eng. is a Senior Engineer in Transportation Planning at the City of Vancouver. She currently manages a regional portfolio, bringing the lens of Vancouver’s urban centre to broader initiatives such as mobility pricing, freight rail and Port projects, and capital funding programs. Before entering the public sector, Carol was a consultant on a […]

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Stacy Thompson

Stacy is the Executive Director of LivableStreets, overseeing all programs including Vision Zero, Better Buses, and the Emerald Network, and ensuring overall programmatic and operational excellence for the organization. A relentless optimist, Stacy is undaunted by the many challenges facing Metro Boston today, including increasing access to jobs and affordable housing, improving safety and public […]

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Gary Buchler

Gary Buchler is a writer, story coach and storyteller who has been the Los Angeles based producer of The Moth StorySLAM series & Mainstages since 2011. He also produces a live show called Shoot ‘Em Up which is a 3-night exploration of the evolution of a story to a screenplay to a film. You can […]

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Veena Snehansh

Veena is an experienced Urban Planner with a history of working in environmental analysis, transportation planning and urban design. Veena previously worked as an Architect before choosing urban planning as her profession. She is currently an Assistant Planner with the Los Angeles department of city planning, where she has the opportunity to draw upon all […]

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Brittany Arceneaux

Brittany Arceneaux is a New Orleans native working as a Planner at the City of Los Angeles Planning Department. Her primary responsibility is long-range planning for the Downtown Community Plan Area. In this role she provides critical analysis of and recommended strategies on local land use regulations as well as information and technical assistance on […]

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Tal Harari

Tal Harari is a Los Angeles native who works for the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, where she works in the Policy Planning Division on the update to the Downtown Community Plan. Harari holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History of Arts and Visual Culture from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a […]

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Ariel Espiritu Santo

Ariel Espiritu Santo is the Agency Administrator for Oakland’s Department of Transportation where she oversees the department’s budget, capital improvement program, human resources and organizational development. Previously, Ariel worked at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency as the manager of Capital Financial Planning and Analysis. In addition to her city government experience, Ariel has six […]

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Carlos Hernandez

Carlos Hernandez is a transportation planner from Los Angeles whose background is rooted in developing community-based bike programs in Southern California. His current work with the Vision Zero program at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation focuses on delivering corridor safety improvement projects at the intersection of community need and innovative design. In addition to street safety […]

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Karina Macias

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Karina Macias is a transportation planner with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. She uses data-driven analysis methods and research to effectuate strategic transportation planning initiatives and develop sustainable transportation policies in the City.  She built and tested the Department’s first project scoring model to help support decisions around […]

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Michael Affeldt

Michael Affeldt is the Director of the LARiverWorks team in Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Office of City Services. LARiverWorks leads project coordination, policy development, and engagement, for the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan and LA River-related efforts. Michael has played a significant role in the development and adoption of the federal Los Angeles River Ecosystem […]

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Amalia M. Merino

Amalia M. Merino is a Policy Analyst and Planning Assistant on the LARiverWorks team. She is lead for the Los Angeles River Cooperation Committee and select planning issues, parks and other LA River Revitalization Master Plan projects, the arts, public engagement, homelessness, and partnerships. She holds a BA in Economics from Smith College and a […]

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Serving as Councilmember Mike Bonin’s LAX Liaison, Geoff works closely with the airport and other city agencies on infrastructure-related projects related to LAX’ multi-billion dollar renovations and future connections to public transportation. Geoff has been serving in this capacity since spring of 2017. Prior to his role at the airport, Geoff served as Interim Transportation […]

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Margot Ocañas

As the City of Los Angeles’ first Pedestrian Coordinator, Margot led the development of the City’s first public placemaking program, People St.  She now manages the City’s Safe Routes to School in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the 2nd largest district in the nation.  She oversees the design of school neighborhood street […]

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George Chen is a Senior Transportation Engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. He specializes in transportation management system design and development. He is leading a team of engineers to develop and implement advanced transportation technologies including adaptive traffic control, data collection and processing, connected transit vehicles, remote sensing, and advanced transportation controller and […]

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Francie Stefan

Francie Stefan is the Acting Chief Mobility Officer/Assistant Director of Planning & Community Development for the City of Santa Monica. She leads the City’s transportation policy, strategy and implementation efforts. She has been with the City for 10 years, working on the Expo Light Rail, Colorado Esplanade, Bike and Pedestrian Plans, GoSaMo campaign, COAST open […]

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Jason Kligier

Jason Kligier is a principal transportation planner with the City of Santa Monica working for the past decade to improve multi-modal options in his hometown. From parking policy, to grant writing, to bike infrastructure planning, he’s been fortunate to work in varied aspects of the field. He was the project manager for the Michigan Avenue […]

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Carlos Morales

Carlos Morales is a Senior Transportation Planner with the City of Santa Monica and has a Master of Arts in Urban Planning with a specialization in Transportation Planning from UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts in International and Environmental Studies from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  His career started as an AmeriCorps volunteer for a […]

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Kyle Kozar

Kyle Kozar is a Senior Transportation Planner/Bike Program Coordinator for the City of Santa Monica. He currently oversees the successful implementation, expansion, and operation of the Bike Share program, and manages other bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects and programs throughout the city, including the new Shared Mobility Pilot Program. Before moving to Santa Monica he […]

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Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson is a Transportation Planner with the City of Santa Monica. He works on various mobility initiatives including the City’s Vision Zero effort. Previously he lived on the East Coast, working at the NYC DOT as a project manager for road safety improvement projects.

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Jack Moreau

Jack Moreau is a Transportation Management Specialist with the City of Santa Monica. He works on a variety of projects including implementation of the city’s transportation demand management ordinance, coordination of annual open streets event COAST, and civic tech initiatives aiming to produce a more transparent and efficient government. He graduated from Occidental College with […]

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Kate White

In September 2013, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. appointed Kate White as Deputy Secretary of Environmental Policy and Housing Coordination. Prior to joining the Agency, Kate spent two decades in the sustainable development field, including as Initiative Officer at The San Francisco Foundation’s Great Communities Collaborative, Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute Bay Area District, founding […]

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Brian Gallagher

Brian Gallagher is the Principal Transportation Engineer of the District Operations Bureau, at the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation; where he was worked for the last 33 years.  From 1985 to 1999, he was actively involved in the development and operation of the City’s Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control (ATSAC) System.  In addition […]

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Jennifer DeMelo

Jen De Melo is the Director of Programs and Operations at KaBOOM! and has been committed to prioritizing play and serving the kids who need it most since 2005. KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to ensuring that all kids get a childhood filled with the balanced and active play needed to thrive. Jen has worked on […]

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Brian Lee
Nader Asmar, PE

Nader Asmar is a registered Traffic Engineer in the State of California and is a 30-year veteran of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.  He has been involved in many of the Department’s initiatives, including the buildout of the City’s computerized traffic signal control system (ATSAC), Planning and Development Review, the Speed Hump Program, Project […]

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Hannah Levien

Hannah is the council member’s liaison for the Mar Vista and West Los Angeles communities. She has worked extremely close with the community over the last 9 months to seek their input, answer their questions and provide recommendations to the council’s transportation team and the council member. She previously worked for US Senator Dianne Feinstein […]

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Lois Arkin

Lois Arkin is the founder (1980) of the nonprofit CRSP Institute for Urban Ecovillages.   In 1993, she co-founded the Los Angeles Eco-Village as a project of CRSP.  Co-author/editor of two books on sustainable cities and cooperative housing, she is the former editor for the “Ecovillage Living” column in Communities Magazine. She represents the Western U.S. […]

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Mike Blockstein

Mike Blockstein, Principal, is a visual artist and educator. He has created and led projects nationally, working with youth, community leaders and organizations to reflect on, understand and shape their physical, social and political geographies, including A Chinatown Banquet in Boston Chinatown, Market Makeovers’ work on healthy food access, and PDUB Productions in Los Angeles’ […]

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Reanne Estrada

Born in the Philippines, Reanne Estrada is a longtime Angeleno and a visual artist. She is Co-Founder & Creative Director of Public Matters, a creative studio for civic engagement. Founded in 2007, it is an award-winning, Los Angeles-based social enterprise that grows leadership capacity in our most vulnerable communities of color through collaborative creative acts […]

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Clare Kelley

Clare Kelley is a City Planning Associate in the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning, working on the comprehensive update to the Downtown Los Angeles Community Plan. In addition to her current role, Clare has worked in open space and active transportation planning in Los Angeles. She is a Vice Director of Awards […]

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Jacqui Swartz

Jacqui Swartz is a transportation planner on Vision Zero and Great Streets at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.  Jacqui has over 15 years of experience leading data-driven decision making for urban planning and engineering efforts. Jacqui has worked on various projects creating conceptual design development to improve safety for people walking and bicycling, geo-spatial models […]

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Garen G. Srapyan

Garen G. Srapyan is an Associate Planner in the Long Range Planning Division within the Planning and Development Services Department for the City of West Hollywood in California. Garen handles a number of complex projects for the City, including working on changes to the City’s zoning ordinance, developing, managing and administering the City’s parklet and […]

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Tara Worden

Tara Worden is an Assistant Planner in the Long Range Planning Division within the Planning and Development Services Department for the City of West Hollywood in California. Tara works on a range of projects including emerging mobility regulations, land use solutions to address affordable housing, and managing community outreach events. Tara currently serves as Awards […]

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Bhuvan is a Transportation Engineer for the City of Los Angeles Dept. of Transportation (LADOT).  He leads the Hollywood-Wilshire District Office, which is the group in charge of the local, day-to-day traffic operations for the Mid-City, Koreatown, Hollywood, and Hollywood Hills region of the City.  Bhuvan spent 10 years in the LADOT’s Automated Traffic Surveillance & Control Center (ATSAC), specializing in Traffic Signal Timing and Advanced Transportation Management […]

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David Somers

David Somers is a transportation planner with the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), in the Transportation Planning and Policy Section. As a part of this work, David is leading efforts to adopt sustainable transportation metrics that informs how the City reviews land use and transportation projects that incentivize reliance on transit and […]

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Paul Storer

Paul Storer is the manager of the City of Vancouver’s Transportation Design Branch  He and his staff are responsible for transportation infrastructure improvements in the City of Vancouver, including functional design, public engagement, and implementation support. Paul is a professional engineer with 13 years of experience at the City of Vancouver including street design, bike […]

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Tony Bruzzone

Anthony Bruzzone is an Associate Principal in Arup’s San Francisco office, and is a transportation planner. His 38 years of experience includes transit service and operations planning, capital projects and airport experience. Tony’s most recently managed the $1.7 million study to reassess the feasibility and benefit of connecting Boston’s separate north and south commuter rail […]

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Daniel Freeman

Mr. DANIEL FREEMAN (M.Sc, MCIP RPP) is the Senior Manager of Bus Priority Programs at TransLink. He oversees Metro Vancouver’s new RapidBus arterial BRT program, as well as efforts to improve the speed & reliability of bus service across the region. As part of that work he is leading a team responsible for TransLink’s ambitious […]

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Kirsten Watson

Kirsten Watson is the Chief Customer Officer and acting Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Toronto Transit Commission. Kirsten and her team ensure the customer is the focus of TTC strategy and planning. Her team consists of Customer Development, Service Planning, Customer Service and the Farecard project. The group lead the development of the new […]

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Josh Naramore

Josh Naramore is the Senior Program Manager for Policy at NACTO helping to guide NACTO’s policy efforts, harnessing the voices of city transportation professionals to improve state, local, and federal transportation policy. Throughout his career, Josh has worked in the public sector. Prior to joining NACTO, Josh served as the Mobile GR Director for the […]

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Tilly Chang

Tilly Chang serves as Executive Director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. As the Congestion Management Agency and transportation sales tax administrator for San Francisco, the SFCTA collaborates with public agencies, community groups and the private sector to improve San Francisco’s local and regional system.  Ms. Chang has 25 years of experience, including 15 […]

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Mary Skelton Roberts

Mary Skelton Roberts is a co-director for Climate, focusing on transportation and land use—two critical levers for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Her portfolio aims to modernize transit systems and to help Massachusetts communities transform themselves into more walkable, connected places where all residents have attractive alternatives to driving and spend far less time and money […]

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Jon Hamblen

Jon Hamblen is the Parking Manager for the City of Pasadena, and he has been with the City since 2015.  Jon has over 15 years of experience in the parking industry in California, and he now works closely with stakeholders in Pasadena to implement parking solutions that help businesses and community members.  He is currently […]

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Simon Pouliot

Simon Pouliot has a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and graduated with a master’s degree in urban design from Université de Montreal (UdeM). Since the beginning of his career, M. Pouliot has accumulated diversified work experience in urban design ranging from community projects to public service as well […]

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Marissa Monroy

With more than 15 years of media relations, government coordination and journalism experience, Marissa currently leads communication efforts for the City of Austin’s Transportation Department. In this role, she leads a team in creating and implementing communication plans for high-profile initiatives including Vision Zero, shared active transportation, smart mobility and multi-million mobility bond efforts. Marissa […]

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Stephanie Lotshaw

Stephanie has diverse experience in the transportation sector, primarily working to assist cities around the world in implementing transit systems that act as the lever for improved urban livability and economic opportunity. At TransitCenter, Stephanie oversees projects relating to transit agency leadership and governance. This includes the transit agency board member workshops, subject-specific staff workshops, […]

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Jacqueline Torres

Jacqueline Torres joined Arup in 2017 as a Senior Transportation Planner. She brings a wide range of transportation and transit planning experience having collaborated on numerous projects including bicycle, pedestrian, and safe routes to school plans as well as multimodal transit operational planning, station area access and first and last mile planning. Prior to joining […]

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Naja Killebrew

Naja brings with her more than two decades of advertising, marketing, and PR experience; including her time at WTXF Fox Philadelphia and Clear Channel Radio Philadelphia. While at Clear Channel, she won a FastStart scholarship from the Radio Advertising Bureau in Dallas, Texas and earned her Radio Marketing Professional Certification in 2003. Naja provides a […]

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James Pertulla

James Perttula was appointed Director of Transit and Transportation Planning for the City of Toronto in September 2016.  Prior to shifting to planning transit for the City of Toronto in December 2014, James spent most of his career exploring transportation, economic and municipal policy issues with the Ontario provincial government.  His experience in transportation covers […]

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Liza Farr

Liza has spent the last two years leading the effort to bring bike share to St. Louis, including convening a working group of stakeholders, engaging the community, and writing the dockless bike share permit regulations with robust social equity requirements. The permit has brought three different companies to St. Louis and over 300,000 rides from […]

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Julia Salinas

Julia Salinas is a Transportation Planning Manager at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Metro holds a role unique to agencies like it in the United States. It finances, plans, builds, and operates all modes of surface transportation in a county of almost 10 million people. Julia is a native of Los Angeles but […]

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Alison Cohen

Alison Cohen, President and CEO of Bicycle Transit Systems, has arguably the broadest and deepest background in bike share in the US and globally. Since 2007, she has had deep experience in this evolving business, from hands-on operation and implementation of seven bike share systems to contracting, business modeling, sponsorship acquisition, planning and feasibility assessments and […]

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Theresa Dau-Ngo, AICP

Theresa has over 20 years of experience in transportation and environmental planning, traffic management, and implementation of major infrastructure projects. She currently serves as Transportation Development Manager at the Port of Long Beach, which is one of the world’s busiest seaports and a major gateway for trade between the United States and Asia. Her responsibilities […]

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Paul Van Dyk

Paul Van Dyk is a Traffic Engineering Associate at Long Beach Public Works. He has managed the city’s bicycle counting program, collision analysis, and helped develop the city’s Bicycle Master Plan. Paul has designed nearly twenty miles of bikeways during his 6 years with the city; since those designs began construction, citywide bicycle collisions have […]

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Tony Cruz

Tony Cruz is a former professional cyclist and U.S. Olympian. He has served as the Bicycle Ambassador for the City of Long Beach since 2009, helping to encourage and promote safe biking throughout the community. He has hosted multiple youth bike camps and school bicycle rodeos. Since the spring of 2017, Tony has worked full […]

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Michael Johnston

Michael Johnston is an Administrative Analyst in the Department of Public Works, overseeing a variety of Tidelands and livability projects. He is a graduate of the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California with a Masters of Public Administration. Born and raised in San Diego, Michael established his roots in […]

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Katie Miller

Katie Miller is the President of Left Lane Advisors and a Principal at Fehr & Peers. An expert in the people-side of the A/E industry, Katie brings over 25 years of experience managing people at all levels with over a decade of coaching leaders in public agencies. She brings a background steeped in the behavioral […]

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Jonah Chiarenza

Jonah Chiarenza is a Transportation Planner at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jonah works in both the Program Development & Capacity Building and the Transportation Planning Divisions. In this role, Jonah works with a range of Federal agencies, including the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Forest Service, National Parks Service, […]

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Margo Dawes

Margo Dawes works at the Seattle Department of Transportation as a strategic advisor on new mobility, data, and equity. Her work includes advancing strong racial equity framing and engagement strategies for the new mobility program, leading data management for the city’s free-floating bike share program, and collaborating with regional transit agencies and other stakeholders on […]

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Mike Myers

With more than 28 years of experience, Mike Myers has earned a reputation as a progressive industry-leading fire chief with an innovative approach to the complex safety and wellness issues facing communities. Chief Myers currently runs Portland Fire & Rescue, the largest fire and rescue department in Oregon. He was hired in June 2016 with […]

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Scott Fraser
John Levin

John Levin is Director of Strategic Initiatives for Metro Transit in Minneapolis-St. Paul. In this role, Mr. Levin oversees performance measurement, data analytics and research activities, and coordination of shared mobility initiatives.  He has been with Metro Transit for 20 years working on long range system planning, route planning, service analysis, scheduling, and data collection for […]

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Adetokunbo “Toks” Omishakin

Adetokunbo “Toks” Omishakin, M.U.R.P., is the Deputy Commissioner/Chief of Environment and Planning at the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) in October of 2011. He leads the activities of the divisions of Environmental Services, Long-Range Planning, and Multimodal Transportation Resources. He currently serves as vice chair of the AASHTO Council on Active Transportation, first convened in the […]

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Russ Martin

Russ Martin is Director of Government Relations for the Governor’s Highway Safety Association. He represents the state highway safety offices before federal agencies and Congress to assist states as they work to address highway safety issues.  Mr. Martin also works closely with partner organizations to improve road safety and promote GHSA objectives. Prior to joining […]

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Brooke McKenna

Brooke McKenna is the Assistant Director for Street Management with the Department of Traffic, Parking + Transportation in Cambridge, MA. In this role, Brooke is responsible for overseeing the safe operation of Cambridge’s street network and leading the City’s Vision Zero Initiative. Brooke previously spent ten years with the New York City Department of Transportation.

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Waffiyyah Murray

Waffiyyah is a Philadelphia native with a love for walking and biking. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Temple University, and over fourteen years of experience working with different Philadelphia-based non-profit and community organizations. As Education Program Manager for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, she worked with the City to support its […]

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For nearly 20 years, Bruce D. McGagin has been representing the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Mr. McGagin is senior trial counsel and Chair of Caltrans’ Statewide Appellate Committee and has represented Caltrans in numerous tort cases in California trial and appellate courts. One of his roles has been advising Caltrans on design flexibility and […]

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Inbar Kishoni

Inbar Kishoni is an urban planner with a passion for opening up the planning process in a way that is meaningful to citizens and useful to decision makers. As Deputy Director of Public Engagement in the Office of Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs at the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT), she manages the […]

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Katie Caskey

Katie Caskey is the Policy Planning Director at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Recently, she was Project Manager for the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan update, Minnesota’s highest-level transportation plan. After experiencing one too many poorly-attended open houses, she became particularly interested in developing visual, interactive, data-driven – yet responsive – approaches to public engagement, with […]

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Adams Carroll

Adams Carroll is passionate about expanding access to healthy, sustainable, and affordable transportation. He brings a professional background in bicycle and pedestrian planning and advocacy to Pittsburgh Bike Share, having previously worked as Active Mobility Planner for the city of Nashville and Program Manager for Walk/Bike Nashville. Adams works with the operations team to ensure […]

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David White

The Healthy Ride system is operated by Pittsburgh Bike Share. David White was hired as the Executive Director of Pittsburgh Bike Share in February, 2015. David White is a lifelong student of municipal decision making. David started his government work in Pittsburgh in 2008 at the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s Housing department then moved on to […]

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James Davies

While in law school at University of Florida, I fell in love with bicycles. I’d used a bicycle as one of my primary modes of transportation (along with the bus and walking) for most of my time in Madison, both during my undergrad and thereafter, but I hadn’t fully appreciated the art, the independence, the […]

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Jeanne E. Scherer

JEANNE E. SCHERER is the Chief Counsel of the Caltrans Legal Division and has an extensive background in risk management and litigation defense.  She began her legal career in the private sector, representing a variety of national and international corporate clients and public entities in general liability and contract litigation.  Jeanne joined the Caltrans Legal […]

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Brendan Conway

Brendan Conway is the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Under Brendan’s leadership, MCTS has modernized and greatly improved its marketing efforts, public relations outreach, customer service and social media. Brendan strongly believes in working with and creating partnerships with other governmental and non-profit agencies. Brendan […]

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Danielle J. Harris

Danielle J. Harris is the Director of Mobility Innovation at Elemental Excelerator, where she works with portfolio companies, partners, and cities to catalyze collaboration within the mobility industry. As a thought leader in new mobility with 10 years of experience in transit planning, street design, and transportation policy, Danielle provides a systems approach to help […]

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Faye Dastgheib

Faye Dastgheib is a senior policy analyst at the District Department of Transportation. In her role at DDOT’s Policy Office, she conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis across a range of transportation topics, including shared mobility, parking and transit. She develops multi-modal policies that govern public space use while considering impacts on city-wide transportation systems. During her role as […]

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Evian Patterson

Evian Patterson, MPA, is Associate Director of the Parking and Ground Transportation Division at the District Department of Transportation. As Associate Director, he leads parking and curbside management, focusing on implementing data-driven parking solutions and providing accessible public information with technological innovation. He also serves as an Operations Administration leader for activities related to large […]

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Patrick Powell

Patrick Powell is the Director of Operations and Preparedness for the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District, where his work focuses on enhancing the cleanliness, well-maintained appearance, and safety and security of the Golden Triangle, D.C. neighborhood.  In this role, he manages the Golden Triangle Ambassadors, a large complex public realm cleaning/maintenance program, that serves as […]

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Clarence Eckerson

Clarence is frequently referred to as “the hardest working man in transportation show biz” for his dedication to making difficult, wonky concepts more accessible and entertaining to the general public. He’s been documenting advocacy transportation for over 15 years.

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Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel was sworn in to a second term as the 55th mayor of the City of Chicago on May 18th, 2015. During his first term, Mayor Emanuel launched Building a New Chicago, an $8 billion coordinated infrastructure plan to revitalize the city’s roads, rails, and runways. The plan has already led to the creation […]

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Dan Hourigan

Dan Hourigan brings 18 years of diverse urban planning and project management experience in leading Midtown Alliance’s transportation & sustainability initiatives.  Dan is currently responsible for developing and implementing projects and programs that make Midtown highly accessible and “green.”  Within this role, he led the planning efforts that created Midtown Atlanta’s first comprehensive transportation plan […]

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Kristen Jeffers

Kristen Jeffers was born in Greensboro, NC to two parents who instilled in her the love of learning, the love of telling stories, the love of helping others and the love of her home state and all the elements that make up its environment. In 2010, after an early career in the nonprofit and professional services […]

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Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman is an urban anthropologist whose work focuses on analyzing urban spaces to enhance the lives of people. The founder of THINK.urban, a research consultancy firm based in Philadelphia, she has worked with organizations including Copenhagenize, Project for Public Spaces, and City ID to bring humanist philosophy into city planning and design. Her work incorporates […]

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Diego Alejandro Parra Gonzalez

Diego Parra is 28 years old. He graduated as a civil engineer from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. During his undergraduate studies, he conducted research on urban and regional sustainability at the “SUR lab” with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Diego loves Bogotá as much as his family and he is passionate […]

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Ronnie Matthew Harris

Based in Chicago, Ronnie is an experience speaker, counselor, and social entrepreneur.  He has an uncanny knack for connecting people, places and things.   As an experienced urban mission strategist, he’s devoted his life to seeing people flourish within the context of global cities, advocating for equitable access to a quality life.  He’s the founding member […]

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Chris Wheat

Chris Wheat serves as Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chris coordinates policies and projects across City Agencies to advance the Mayor’s sustainability agenda. His work has included expansion of the Retrofit Chicago Partnership, the passage of Chicago’s Disposable Bag Tax, and efforts to improve the […]

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Chris Pangilinan

Chris Pangilinan is the program director for technology and rider engagement at TransitCenter, a foundation dedicated to improving urban mobility. Chris’s work focuses on reforming transit agencies practices around data, performance metrics, and bus dispatching to improve service for their riders. He is also an advocate for improved access for people with disabilities to the […]

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Kevin Thompson

Kevin is the director of Transportation for America. He joined T4America in October 2017. He previously served in the Obama administration as the deputy director of communications at the U.S. Department of the Interior and earlier as Associate Administrator for Legislative Affairs and Communications at the Federal Railroad Administration, an operating mode of the U.S. Department […]

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Natalie Draisin

Natalie Draisin is the Director of the North American Office and the United Nations Representative for the FIA Foundation. She manages the Foundation’s grants in North America to achieve safe and sustainable mobility worldwide. At the UN, advocated for the inclusion of road safety in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and secured language prioritizing a […]

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Cecilia Vaca Jones

Cecilia has over 15 years of experience managing social development policies and programmes. She holds a masters degree in Social Policies for Sustainable Development from the University of Bologna, Italy, and a BA in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was the Coordinating Minister of Social Development […]

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Dian Nostikasari

Dian Nostikasari is with the Development, Transportation and Placemaking team at the Kinder Institute. She earned her Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Public Policy from the University of Texas at Arlington with an emphasis on transportation equity, health, environmental justice and community development. Her interests include utilizing interdisciplinary approaches to make stronger connections between the […]

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Harry Osterman

Harry Osterman has been Alderman of the 48th Ward since May 2011. He is a progressive, independent voice committed to serving his community. Harry was born in Chicago and grew up in Edgewater.  A lifelong resident of the 48th Ward, he and his wife, Peggy, are committed to raising their three children in this diverse […]

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David Smith

As Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager for the Chicago Dept. of Transportation, David oversees a team of planners and engineers responsible for planning, designing, and implementing the City’s bicycle network, developing policies and programs to improve pedestrian safety, and advancing the City’s Rapid Delivery Program. The Rapid Delivery Program has included the implementation of quick […]

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Julissa Ferreras-Copeland

Julissa Ferreras-Copeland was elected to the New York City Council in 2009, as the representative for District 21. She is the first woman, first person of color and the youngest to chair the Council’s influential Committee on Finance, which oversees the City’s $82 billion budget process as well as the Department of Finance, Comptroller’s Office, […]

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Jacky Grimshaw

Jacky joined CNT in 1992, and has since developed its capacity to engage in public policy advocacy and transportation planning, transportation research, environmental justice, public participation tool development, GIS mapping, community economic development and air quality. Jacky advocated for and provided expertise to increase transit in the Chicago region. She created and led CNT’s transportation […]

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Andrew Walter

Andrew is an assistant director with the City of Atlanta’s Office of Mobility Planning where he is currently focused on updating the City’s comprehensive transportation plan. He has previous experience managing the design and construction of roadway, park, and streetscape projects, and spent over a decade building and implementing Atlanta’s green stormwater infrastructure program.  Andrew […]

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Stacey Gillett

Stacey Gillett leads research and development of new Government Innovation initiatives at Bloomberg Philanthropies.  In this role, she has launched multiple programs which include What Works Cities, supporting US cities to better use data and evidence; the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, growing the leadership and management capacity of mayors and city leaders; and the […]

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George Branyan has served as the Pedestrian Program Coordinator at the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) since 2005. Before joining DDOT, Mr. Branyan served for 5 years as the Pedestrian, Bicycle, and School Zone Safety Coordinator for the Maryland Highway Safety Office. Mr. Branyan works on a variety of engineering, education, enforcement and […]

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Eric Asboe

Eric Asboe is the Public Engagement and Policy Coordinator for the Chattanooga Department of Transportation. An avid active transportation user and advocate, he works to expand access to and participation in the planning, design, and use of all modes of transportation.

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Nicholas Oyler

Passionate about cities in general and his hometown of Memphis in particular, Nicholas left home for a number of years in search of lessons on the topic of great cities. This pursuit of knowledge and experience rewarded him with a Master of Urban Planning degree from Texas A&M University, four years of life and employment […]

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Wendy Cawley

Wendy Cawley, P.E. has worked for the City of Portland, Oregon since 1997.  For the past 10 years she has been the Traffic Safety Engineer for the City’s High Crash Corridor/Vision Zero Program. Wendy works in the Traffic Design Section on a variety of projects ranging from small scale pedestrian safety projects to multi-modal corridor projects. […]

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Kendra Freeman

Kendra joined the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) in 2016 and assists with project management, research and policy development for MPC’s work in housing and community development. Her work includes engaging external partners in new and ongoing projects, including the Cost of Segregation and community-based planning efforts for transit-oriented development through the Corridor Development Initiative. Prior to MPC, Kendra […]

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Jacob T. Floyd

Jacob is a Planning Coordinator in the City of San Antonio’s Planning Department. In his 9 years of experience in planning Jacob has worked in almost every aspect of city planning; from land use and comprehensive planning to annexation and urban design. His current projects include the Downtown Regional Center Plan and the SA Corridors […]

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Stacy Cook

Stacy Cook, AICP is a Senior Associate for Cambridge Systematics. She supports agencies in navigating change, such as adapting to new technologies, and managing growth, land use, and transportation investments to create vibrant, walkable communities and improve regional mobility. Ms. Cook is supporting the development of the Virginia Automated Vehicle 20XX Strategic Plan and is […]

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Patrick Skoglund oversees consulting, design, development and deployment at SADA Systems, Inc. for Google. His focus on user-experience enables clients to understand Google’s Enterprise ecosystem and how it can be leveraged to improve their businesses. Patrick has been at SADA for over 5 years and has worked with the company to grow more than 10x.

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David Rawsthorne

For 30 years, David Rawsthorne has designed transportation infrastructure ranging from freeway interchanges to local street traffic calming. Since 2001, his work at the City of Vancouver in British Columbia has focused on improving the city’s quality of life by expanding its walking and cycling infrastructure. In recent years, he has planned and designed many […]

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Kathleen Mayell

Kathleen joined the City of Minneapolis in 2016 as a Transportation Planning Manager. She leads transportation planning activities and initiatives, and oversees the Vision Zero effort and the City’s role in regional transit projects. Kathleen previously held positions at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the City of Somerville, Massachusetts, and Project for Public Spaces in […]

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Doug Farr

Doug is the president of Farr Associates, a Chicago-based firm of optimistic architects and urban designers who plan and design lovable, aspirational buildings and places. The firm was named 2012 Chicago Firm of the Year by the American Institute of Architects. Under his leadership, Farr Associates has designed and certified a total of seven LEED […]

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Billy Hwang

Billy Hwang is a Principal Consultant with the Advisory Services group of WSP based in Los Angeles, California. In this capacity, he provides a variety of services, including technical grant writing for state and federal programs, financial and strategic planning, organizational and business process analysis of project and service delivery, and management support for large-scale […]

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Christophe Najdovski

Christophe Najdovski was appointed by Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, as deputy mayor of transportation and public space in 2014.

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Jonathan D. Rogers

Jonathan Rogers is a transportation planner with the District Department of Transportation where he focuses on NEPA studies, development review, neighborhood planning, and public space design. Prior to his five years at DDOT, Jonathan worked for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) on the regional transportation plan and transportation demand management. Jonathan has a […]

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Peter Norton

Peter Norton is a historian who writes about people, cities, and cars—particularly about how cars took over city streets.  He is associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia.  He is the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (MIT Press).  His article […]

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Erin L. Aleman

Erin Aleman is the Director of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s (IDOT) Office of Planning and Programming (OPP). Under her guidance, the office develops plans and programs aimed at improving the state’s transportation system. 

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Phillip A. Washington

Phillip A. Washington was unanimously selected CEO of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) by the LA Metro Board of Directors on March 12, 2015.

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Meera Joshi

Meera Joshi is a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy, an independent consultant and serves as a Policy Advisor for Remix. Meera is the former Commissioner of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), where she oversaw the largest private for-hire ground transportation industry in the United States, […]

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Chris Bruntlett

Chris Bruntlett is an Architectural Designer who has always used the humble bicycle to get around.

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Tony Garcia

Tony Garcia is a Principal of Street Plans Collaborative, and leads the firm’s Miami office. Anthony is a nationally recognized architect, writer, speaker and advocate in the in the field of transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure As a writer and advocate, Tony’s work has appeared in or been featured by numerous publications. Tony is a coauthor of the globally […]

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Julian Guevara

Julian Guevara is the Municipal Manager of Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works. He is currently acting as a liaison between various municipalities, regional agencies and the County to seek support and prompt implementation of strategic programs, including Complete Streets.  He joined the County after a few years of work in transportation planning for […]

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Ivan Cheung

Ivan Cheung, PhD, is a transportation research analyst at the National Transportation Safety Board. At the NTSB, he co-managed many transportation safety studies, with topics ranging from speeding, single-unit truck, curbside bus operation, and integrity management of gas transmission pipelines. Before joining the NTSB, he was a research scientist with the Insurance Institute for Highway […]

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Jennifer currently leads the bus side of the strategic planning at CTA, which includes long term bus projects like BRT, some land use planning coordination, some customer survey and market research, and lots of interagency coordination.  This year, Jennifer is also serving as a Visiting Transit Professional at Oakland’s new Department of Transportation, bringing the […]

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Matt Nichols

Matt Nichols was selected by Mayor Libby Schaaf to serves as the Oakland Mayor’s Office’s first-ever Policy Director for Infrastructure & Transportation. For two decades, Matt has been a leader in sustainable transportation policies and projects implementation in the Bay Area and has a proven track record in major fundraising, Safe Routes to Schools, transit […]

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Mike Schofield

Mike Schofield joined the City of Austin in 2015 as a Multimodal Street Designer in the Transportation Department. He works to design and implement multimodal great streets as well as plan projects to connect the bicycle network. Mike leads the department in design review of work by other divisions, departments, and agencies to ensure connectivity […]

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Dave Kemp

DK has been putting people on bikes since 1997. Following an illustrative career as a bike shop salesman, DK moved on to conceptualize and implement the Tour de Fat event series with New Belgium Brewing from 2000-2004.  From 2006-2012, DK served as the Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Fort Collins and helped move the […]

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Ernest Chrappah

Ernest Chrappah is an experienced government executive as well as a successful entrepreneur with a reputation for finding innovative solutions to complex challenges. Chrappah was appointed by Washington, DC, Mayor Bowser and confirmed by the City Council in November 2016 to lead the newly established Department of For-Hire Vehicles (DFHV) with a mission to ensure […]

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Carlos Cruz-Casas

Carlos Cruz-Casas, P.E. is the Assistant Director of Strategic Planning for Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works. His primary focus is to introduce mobility innovation and plan for a fully integrated transportation system. His career includes both public and private sector experience ranging from conceptual design to implementation of pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and traffic […]

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Allison Bullock

Allison Bullock is a Senior Project Manager with the Transit Development Group at the New York City Department of Transportation. In her role, she leads the planning, design, and implementation of street improvement projects to develop better public transportation options and improve safety throughout the city. Allison works closely with colleagues at the MTA to […]

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Gregory Rodriguez

Gregory Rodriguez is with Best Best & Krieger’s Washington, D.C. office. Greg uses his unique experience working on Capitol Hill and as in-house counsel for a transportation planning agency to provide legal and regulatory guidance concerning federal grant and contracting requirements, and monitors, counsels and advocates for clients on federal legislation, rulemakings and funding opportunities […]

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Jennifer Cohen

Jennifer Cohen is the Director of Government Affairs for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT).  As a member of the department’s executive team she is LADOT’s primary liaison to the City Council and other government entities and leads the department’s strategy and analysis on all local, state and federal legislative issues. In this capacity […]

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Tom Kotarac

Tom Kotarac joined the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) in 2015 as deputy executive director of policy and programming.   At CMAP, he directs overall agency strategy and setting of research agendas for CMAP’s policy focus areas, including transportation, land use, economic development, housing, tax policy, and governance.  Tom also provides oversight on the annual […]

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Cara Seiderman

Cara Seiderman is Transportation Program Manager for the City of Cambridge, overseeing the City’s bike share program (Bluebikes) and managing the Bicycle and Pedestrian Mobility Program. Ms. Seiderman has worked in an advisory capacity for several state and national design and technical guides, and frequently gives presentations and workshops on pedestrian and bicycle facility planning, […]

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Justin Feek

Justin Feek is a Principal Planner in the Street Transportation Department for the City of Phoenix, Arizona.  His educational background includes a degree in Regional Development from the University of Arizona that compliments private sector work experience in environmental consulting in California, community, land use, and transportation planning for the County of Santa Barbara, California, […]

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Elyse Parker

Elyse Parker is the Director of Policy and Innovation, Transportation Services at the City of Toronto. She has degrees in Landscape Architecture (University of Toronto), American Studies (Heritage Preservation (Boston University) and Landscape Architecture in Urban Design (Harvard University).     She received a 2008 Ontario Association of Landscape Architects award for Public Practice and a 2012 […]

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Sarah Fine

Sarah Fine is a Senior Transportation Planner with the Oakland Department of Transportation. At OakDOT, Sarah leads a team that plans and implements transit and active transportation projects. Previous to her role at OakDOT, Sarah worked as a transportation planner at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and as a bicycle and pedestrian planner at […]

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Lily Gordon-Koven

Lily Gordon-Koven has been a Project Manager in Transportation Planning & Management at NYC DOT since 2015. In this role, Lily researches, designs and oversees the implementation of Vision Zero Street Improvement Projects. Before joining NYC DOT, she worked at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and at the National Complete Street Coalition. […]

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Candida Lorenzana

Candida Lorenzana is the Transit Service and Strategy Manager at the Seattle Department of Transportation. In her role, she oversees the city’s investment in transit service, regional policy issues, and relations with King County Metro Transit, Seattle’s transit provider.  She has over ten years of transit experience in a variety of roles, including major project […]

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Lisa Nuszkowski

Lisa Nuszkowski is an advocate for and leader in transportation and mobility in Detroit. She is the founder and executive director of MoGo Detroit Bike Share, the city’s public bike share system, with 430 bikes at 430 stations located in 10 Detroit neighbourhoods. Lisa also oversees Open Streets Detroit, an annual program that temporarily closes […]

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Sean Wiedel

Sean Wiedel, AICP, is an Assistant Commissioner with the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) where he manages the Citywide Services Section. The Citywide Services includes the Vision Zero Chicago initiative, bike parking, travel demand management and alternative fuels and electric vehicle deployment programs. Sean worked with CDOT leadership to negotiate a new sponsorship for Divvy […]

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William Johnson

William M. Johnson was appointed Deputy Chief Operating Officer and City of Atlanta Public Works Commissioner by Mayor Kasim Reed in 2016. Prior to these appointments, Johnson served as the Director of Baltimore City Department of Transportation, where he had a pivotal leadership role in providing construction, reconstruction and repair for thousands of miles of […]

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Ben Rosenblatt

Ben Rosenblatt, AICP, CFA, is a Senior Planner in Sam Schwartz’s City Strategies practice area in New York. Ben brings a unique, multi-disciplinary perspective to the group. For 7 years, he served as a business valuation consultant and strategist, where he identified structural challenges, quantified risks, and developed tactical recommendations for private companies in a […]

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Jonathan M. Rogers

Jonathan M. Rogers is a Policy Analyst at the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). In DDOT’s Policy and Legislative Affairs Division, Jonathan leads multi-agency coordination for Vision Zero, and formulates policies and regulatory proposals that pertain to the development of transportation systems for the District of Columbia, with particular emphasis on a safe, multi-modal comprehensive approach. In the […]

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Ryan Lanyon

Ryan Lanyon has been working in urban transportation for 20 years, in the areas of policy development, demand management, operations and administration. He is the Chair of the Automated Vehicles Interdivisional Working Group for the City of Toronto. He also serves as the Manager of the City’s street furniture program, a $900 million public-private partnership […]

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Lilly O’Brien-Kovari

Lilly O’Brien is Deputy of Communications and External Affairs for the LA Vision Zero team. She manages the program’s legislative and media focused scope. O’Brien also just concluded project managing the LADOT Strategic Plan update, released in early October. O’Brien served in the Mayor’s Office since June 2014 as a program manager for the Great […]

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Nichole Altmix

Nichole Altmix is the New York City Department of Transportation’s Executive Director of Planning for the Pedestrian Ramp Program, a new unit dedicated to evaluating, planning, designing and constructing compliant pedestrian ramps citywide. Prior to building this new team, Nichole managed the activities of the teams responsible for safety improvement projects, strategic planning, traffic engineering, curb management […]

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Kyle Rowe

Kyle Rowe works as a Strategic Advisor in the Transit & Mobility division within the Seattle Department of Transportation. Kyle’s career at SDOT began with long-range modal planning and then transitioned into bikeway and complete street design. For the last year Kyle has managed SDOT’s bike share program; including managing and decommissioning the Pronto system, […]

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Juan A. Martinez

Juan Martinez is the Department of Transportation’s Director of Traffic Operations Policy and has led policy for several of the agency’s Vision Zero efforts, including the rollout of New York City’s speed camera program and expansion of pedestrian right of way within the crosswalk.  Previously, Juan was General Counsel & Legislative Director at Transportation Alternatives, the nation’s leading walking […]

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Benjamin T. Limmer

Benjamin Limmer, AICP, joined the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) as Assistant General Manager, Planning in 2016. In addition to his role as key advisor to the Authority’s GM/CEO on transit planning and development matters, Limmer’s responsibilities include coordinating all transit and service planning throughout the MARTA service area. He also manages MARTA’s strategic […]

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Faye Q. DiMassimo

Faye DiMassimo has 36 years of experience in transportation planning, project development and program delivery. She holds B.S., MPA and MCP degrees from Auburn University, is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha political science honorary and the American Institute for Certified Planners (AICP). Including her current position as the Renew Atlanta bond and TSPLOST programs […]

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Kyle Wagenschutz

Kyle Wagenschutz is the Director of Local Innovation at PeopleForBikes, a national non-profit working to get more people on bikes in the U.S. Kyle is leading a new three-year initiative called The Big Jump Project to expedite the planning and development of comfortable bicycling networks with a goal of doubling or tripling bicycle rates in […]

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Irene Quintáns

Irene Quintáns worked in the Barcelona City Council (2008-11), and in the SEHAB – Municipal Housing Secretariat in São Paulo (2011-13), specially focused on the Slum Upgrading Program awarded by the UN (Scroll of Honor 2012). While in the SEHAB, she created and developed a Safe Routes to School project, finalist in City to City Barcelona […]

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Prof. Janez Koželj

Janez Koželj was born 18.8.1945 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Having taught the Urban design at the Faculty of architecture in Ljubljana, he has been the protagonist of the contextual approach to town planning. Since 1995 his interest has been shifted to the strategic issues of the contemporary urban design. Focusing his research on the contemporary city, […]

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Becky Katz

Becky Katz is the City of Atlanta’s first Chief Bicycle Officer. In this role she works across city and state departments and with the public to make Atlanta safer, easier and better by bike. Her main initiatives include overseeing the Relay Bike share system, increasing the city’s bikeway mileage through the Renew Atlanta Infrastructure Bond/TSPLOST […]

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Benito Pérez

Benito O. Pérez, AICP CTP CPM CAPP (he/him) is the Policy Director of Transportation for America. He previously served in various roles at Washington DC’s District Department of Transportation since 2012, which included Curbside Management & Operations Planning Manager, Curbside Management Planner, and Transportation Policy Specialist. During his DDOT tenure, he worked on and managed […]

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Steven Higashide

Steven Higashide is Director of Research for TransitCenter, a New-York-based foundation that supports innovations in urban transportation across the country. He directs TransitCenter’s research aimed at measuring American attitudes toward public transit, and develops policy guides and workshops that help cities enact transit-supportive policy. His research has been widely cited by mainstream and industry media, including the Washington Post, Vox, and Wired. In […]

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Josh Rogers

Josh Rogers leads the non-profit NewTown Macon, where he works to attract, leverage and invest in self-sustaining transformation for downtown Macon, Georgia.  Over his career, Rogers has become an innovator in using real estate to spark and sustain revitalization in communities desperate for reinvestment.   One of Rogers’ signature abilities is to use market forces to […]

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Gustavo Pinheiro Lessa Parente

Gustavo has a degree in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (2008). Between 2008 and 2013 he worked in Fortaleza’s Traffic Management and Traffic Lights management. Since 2014, Gustavo has been working on the Cycling Mode Management Sector of Fortaleza’s City Hall. His work mainly involves the planning, implementation and monitoring of cycling infrastructure, […]

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Beatriz Rodriguez

Beatriz Rodrigues Andrade is an Architect and Urban Designer with over four years of experience. Beatriz is working within the Public Services and Conservation Department in the Safer Mobility and Safer Streets focus area as Urban Design Coordinator. Prior to joining the initiative, Beatriz worked in Public Services and Conservation Department serving as Transportation Planner […]

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Charles Brown

Charles T. Brown, MPA is a self-proclaimed “street level researcher,” working at the intersection of transportation, health, and equity. He serves as a senior researcher with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and adjunct professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, both at Rutgers University. He has 17 years of […]

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Dr. Daniel Moser

Dr. Moser specializes in the art and science of communications training for professionals in financial, business, engineering, medical, design, and other technical fields.

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Dr. Rachel Aldred

Rachel Aldred is a Reader in Transport at Westminster University. Her research includes the Near Miss Project, the Cycling Cultures project, the Modelling on the Move project, and most recently a project on adults’ views on cycling with or by children. Rachel is passionate about improving everyday cycling for all ages and abilities.

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Kim Lucas

Kim Lucas serves as the Director for the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility & Infrastructure. As Director of DOMI, Kim oversees transportation investments and policies that support the physical mobility needed for the people of Pittsburgh to pursue the economic mobility they aspire to. Key initiatives of the department at present include design and implementation […]

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Mollie Pelon McArdle

Mollie is the Technology and City Transportation Program Manager at NACTO. She leads NACTO’s work on autonomous vehicle & technology policies in cities, including NACTO’s Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism and the SharedStreets data sharing project. Mollie also leads NACTO’s policy work on congestion pricing.

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Verna DuBerry Ademu-John

Verna DuBerry Ademu-John, MS, Health Initiatives Program Manager at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration has extensive experience in public and community health, most recently focusing on environmental and system change and how it relates to improving lives and health outcomes in communities of color. She has led a Coalition of over 100 member organizations for the past four […]

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Michael Poplawski joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2009, as a Senior Engineer following twelve years in the commercial semiconductor industry. His work experience includes roles spanning device engineering and reliability, circuit design, application support, and technical marketing. His current efforts are focused on supporting the Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting program, primarily in […]

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Leni Schwendinger leads the Night-time Design/Global Lighting Urbanist initiative within Arup’s’ lighting discipline. With more than 20 years of experience creating environments for architectural, infrastructure and open spaces all over the world she has created illuminated environments, products and programs for public spaces. Leni’s public artwork commissions have been enjoyed by visitors and residents in […]

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Jason Neches is the founder and principal of WATT Lighting and a new resident of Seattle.  A lighting designer with experience on a variety of award-winning public and private projects, Jason (before relocating to Seattle from New York City) was the Director of L’Observatoire International as well as a professor within the Parsons School of […]

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Shefali Ranganathan

Shefali Ranganathan is the Executive Director at Transportation Choices Coalition (TCC), a Washington State based non-profit working to create more opportunities to take transit, walk or bike. TCC has led successful campaigns all across the state securing more than $25B for transit, biking and walking including the $930M Move Seattle transportation levy in 2015. Shefali […]

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John Gordon
Mary Catherine Snyder

Mary Catherine Snyder is a Parking Strategist for the City of Seattle Department of Transportation and lead for the Policy group in SDOT’s Curbside Management Team. Over the last twenty plus years at the city, Mary Catherine has worked on a variety of policy, program, and technology projects related to managing curbspace in the public […]

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David Woessner

David C. Woessner is an expert in topics of globalization, localization and emerging technologies and has written articles and whitepapers on mobility, connectivity and automotive technology hubs. He has over 15 years of executive leadership, strategy, business development, sales and relationship management experience. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, startups, private equity, venture capitalist, […]

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Phyllis Porter

Phyllis is an accomplished and energetic leader dedicated to advancing community relations with City Government. She has a track record of achieving exceptional results in fostering relationships with policy leaders including City councilmembers on multiple projects in SE Seattle.  As an educator and community activist, Phyllis is a seasoned advocate on transportation, ambassador for communities […]

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Benjamin Smith is a Senior Transportation Planner with the Seattle Department of Transportation, working on regional transit issues. He collaborates with King County Metro, Sound Transit and the local MPO, and coordinates several transit corridor improvement projects. He previously worked for Washington State Ferries, Sound Transit, URS and the former San Diego MTDB. He has […]

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Bill Bryant is manager of Service Development at King County Metro Transit, which is the primary provider of public transportation in Seattle, Bellevue, and numerous other jurisdictions as well as in unincorporated King County.  His responsibilities include overseeing Metro’s Market Development, Scheduling, Transit Route Facilities, Speed & Reliability, and Service Planning teams. Prior to joining […]

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Peter Soulsby

Sir Peter Soulsby was born in Bishop Auckland and educated at City of Leicester College of Education and the University of Leicester. In 1973, he became a councillor, serving on Leicester City Council and eight years later became Leader of the Council – a position he held almost continuously for the next 17 years. During this time […]

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Vi Lyles

Vi Alexander Lyles, a democrat, is an at large representative on Charlotte City Council. She was elected in 2013 and is serving her second term on council. She was chosen by her peers on December 7, 2015 to serve as mayor pro tem. Lyles worked for the City of Charlotte for almost 30 years, starting off as […]

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Don Blakeney

Don Blakeney is Vice President of Advocacy & Economic Development at the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA). The DSA is a member-based non-profit 501(c)(4) organization that works to champion a vibrant urban core for Downtown Seattle through public policy advocacy, economic development and marketing. The DSA also administers Seattle’s Metropolitan Improvement District, which provides streetscape cleaning, […]

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Erin Hafkenschiel

Erin Hafkenschiel is the Executive Director for Mobility for Vanderbilt University. In this role, she is responsible for launching the university’s first-ever strategic transportation office which will lead mobility planning and policy development for the school and the creation of a comprehensive transportation-demand management program.  Erin served as the Director of the Mayor’s Office of […]

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Meghan Shepard

Meghan Shepard is the Deputy Director of Downtown Mobility for the Seattle Department of Transportation, where she is focused on moving people and goods throughout the “Seattle Squeeze” when Seattle’s downtown is in a state of significant transportation transformation. Since she started with SDOT in 2002, she’s partnered with transportation agencies to improve transit and […]

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Susanne Seitinger

Susanne Seitinger, Global Sub-segment Manager for Open Spaces in Professional Systems at Philips Lighting is responsible for leading the strategy around the impact of programmable LED lighting elements to create safe, inviting and responsive urban environments. Her combined background in architecture, urban planning and human-computer interaction is comprised of research and design projects like the […]

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Tobi Nussbaum

Tobi Nussbaum is a Councillor in the City of Ottawa representing an economically diverse ward just east of the downtown core. First elected in 2014, he moved to municipal politics after 15 years professional experience as a Canadian diplomat, lawyer and senior public servant with the Government of Canada. He has worked at the United […]

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Brian Dougherty

Brian Dougherty manages the Pedestrian and Neighborhood Projects Group in the Project Development Division for the Seattle Department of Transportation. He has 16 years’ experience working on active transportation in Seattle, leading high-profile projects including Safe Routes to School, Neighborhood Greenways, sidewalks, trails, and traffic calming. He has presented at on topics including Rightsizing, traffic […]

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Stephanie Wiggins

Stephanie Wiggins, Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), most recently served as Executive Director of Vendor/Contract Management for Metro. She has more than 20 years of experience working for transportation agencies. Prior to Metro, she served as Regional Programs Director for the Riverside County Transportation Commission and oversaw […]

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Rodney Stiles

Rodney is the Assistant Commissioner for Data & Technology at the Taxi & Limousine Commission, the City agency responsible for licensing and regulating taxis and other for-hire services in New York City. His team researches impacts of policies through big data analysis, liaises with technology companies who want to work in the for-hire space, and […]

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Amanda Eaken

As an advocate for sustainable urban planning, Eaken focuses on slashing transportation-related pollution. She played a key role in the formulation and implementation of California’s 2008 Sustainable Communities Act, which gives regions funding and incentives to develop emission-reducing strategies. Before joining NRDC, Eaken managed affordable-housing construction for a nonprofit developer in San Francisco. She holds […]

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Leah Shahum

Leah Shahum is the founder and director of the Vision Zero Network, a national campaign supporting cities working toward Vision Zero — zero traffic fatalities and severe injuries.

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Kevin Desmond

Kevin is an experienced executive with a career built in the public transportation industry. Prior to joining TransLink, Kevin was General Manager of King County Metro Transit serving the Seattle metropolitan region. At Metro, he oversaw a mix of transit modes, including buses, trains, vanpools, paratransit vans, as well as approximately 5,000 employees. In his […]

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Charles Territo
Andy Salkeld

With 25 years experience as a transport planner/engineer, Andy represents Leicester City Council on all aspects of cycling development. He established the Cycle City Action Plan supported by over 40 organisations and lead on Infrastructure, Promotions, Training and Engagement. He also directly manages the Ride Leicester Programme including an annual two week bike festival and citywide outreach […]

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Chris has been with NYC DOT since 2013, aiding in the development of Hurricane Sandy recovery projects and the city’s green infrastructure plan. Since 2015, Chris has been responsible for coordinating the agency’s 10 year, $2.2 billion streets capital plan in alignment with long-term planning efforts and strategic goals. Prior to his role at NYC […]

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Juliet Flores Wilson

Juliet Flores Wilson is a transportation planner at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, where she manages a variety of projects related to Vision Zero and transportation demand management. Her work is particularly focused on large vehicle safety, and she manages city efforts to research and implement safety improvements (e.g. side guards) for city owned […]

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Ms. Capers oversees program planning, external affairs and development operations at Restoration. Prior to joining Restoration full time in September 2005, she served as a consultant to Restoration leading efforts to renew funding relationships, increase board involvement and create strategic partnerships. Other past clients included the Bowery Residents’ Committee, the Development Training Institute, the New […]

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Carniesha Kwashie

Carniesha Kwashie, is the Director of the Job Opportunity Investment Network (JOIN) at United Way of Greater Philadelphia& Southern New Jersey.  As the Director of JOIN, which is also a  member of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Carniesha oversees workforce development investments and their impact in 8 counties regionally. In partnership with Corporation for […]

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Ludo Campbell-Reid

Ludo Campbell-Reid is Auckland Council’s Design Champion and General Manager of the Auckland Design Office, a department of multi-disciplinary design and place activation professionals charged with spearheading Auckland’s design-led renaissance. As Design Champion, Ludo is accountable for achieving design excellence in council’s plans, policies and projects; working directly alongside the Mayor and city officials, the […]

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Miriam Sorell

Miriam Sorell is a manager in the Livable Streets Division of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, where she has been working on bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects for 6 years and currently leads a team of planners, engineers, and project managers. Her team’s projects range from neighborhood traffic calming implementation to evaluating innovative bicycle […]

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Tracy Krawczyk

Tracy is a planner with over 30 years of experience in urban and transportation planning, both in the private and public sectors.  She is currently the Policy & Planning Director for the Seattle Department of Transportation.  Her areas of professional practice center on transportation planning, urban design, and capital programming with a focus on aligning […]

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Kate Johnson has worked in in a variety of transportation planning roles. Following stints in capital programming, grant acquisition and transit planning, for the past ten years she has been serving as a transportation planner administering commute trip reduction and transportation demand management programs for the City of Bellevue.

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Alex Krieg

Alex Krieg is a senior planner at the Puget Sound Regional Council. He leads PSRC’s transportation demand management work, which includes staffing the Regional TDM Steering Committee. He also works on a variety of long-range transportation planning activities including transit integration, transit access, and regional parking policy. Alex has a Master’s Degree in Urban and […]

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Amy Scarton

Amy Scarton is the Assistant Secretary for Community and Economic Development at the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). Amy oversees the majority of WSDOT’s modal divisions, including Public Transportation, Freight, Aviation, Rail, Local Programs, and Multimodal Planning. Amy represents WSDOT on a variety of boards and commissions, including the Transportation Investment Board, the Puget […]

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Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones has been the Planning Director at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency since 2016, and oversees a wide range of programs and projects intended to implement San Francisco’s Transit First policy by enhancing the degree to which the transportation system supports an equitable and economically viable city.  SFMTA Planning looks at transportation today […]

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Roger Millar

Roger Millar was appointed the Secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation by Governor Jay Inslee in August 2016. Millar oversees an agency of 6,800 employees, with responsibility for 18,600 lane miles of highway, 3,700 bridges, general aviation airports, passenger and freight rail programs, and the Washington State Ferry system, the nation’s largest. Millar […]

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Dave Hutchinson is the Capital Budget Manager for the City of Pittsburgh.  In addition to Capital Budget planning, he works with departments on project management best practices and operational efficiencies related to capital projects. Before joining Pittsburgh’s Office of Management and Budget, Dave worked in banking as a Best Practices Officer. He has a degree […]

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Nicole Blanchard

Nicole Blanchard is a Civil Engineer and has work for the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation for the last 15 years.  Since 2003, she has focused on interagency collaboration to develop design standards and best practices to implement green infrastructure in the public right-of-way.  She has been part of green infrastructure evolving from just […]

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Deborah Deets

Deborah is a California State Registered Landscape Architect for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation, Watershed Protection Program.  Her stormwater project designs have been featured in the national Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM), Stormwater Solutions Magazine, local public television (KCET), and have won national (CASQA and NACWA) recognition for design […]

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Shanti Colwell, PE, is the Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Manager (Interim) for Seattle Public Utilities (SPU). She is responsible for implementing the GSI Program for SPU, including developing policy and regulatory requirements, defining technical standards for GSI in Seattle, and leading the planning and implementation of GSI capital projects in the right-of-way for SPU, specifically […]

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Beth Heyde

Beth Heyde is Director of Logistics of the New York City Department of Transportation Bike Share Program where she oversees Citi Bike’s operations, and facilitates expansion planning and the public engagement process. Beth believes bike share programs offer solutions to many complex interconnected urban mobility issues, and have the capacity to bridge gaps in transportation, […]

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Pete leads strategy and market development for ReachNow, a premium mobility services company by BMW, BMWi and MINI.

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Alexander Epstein

Dr. Alexander Epstein is an engineering systems analyst in the Office of Policy, Planning & Environment at the Volpe Center, a federal research lab of the USDOT. In this role, Epstein evaluates and advises on the effectiveness, safety, and sustainability of advanced vehicle and fuel technologies, partnering with transportation leaders to improve urban traffic safety […]

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Hank was born and raised in Atlanta, and moved to San Francisco nearly 13 years ago.  Hank spent six years as a civil rights attorney before following his true passion to transportation planning.  Hank worked for four years on the SFpark program in San Francisco, focusing on making San Francisco the first city to install […]

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Dave Benson

Dave Benson was appointed as the Parking Services Group Manager in August of 2015. In this role, he oversees the Parking Enforcement, Parking Operations and Regulatory Divisions. Prior to joining PBOT, Dave worked at the Portland Police Bureau for over three decades.  During his career, he served in a variety of leadership roles. Most notably, […]

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Michael Replogle

Michael Replogle was appointed Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the New York City Department of Transportation in June 2015, where he develops strategy and advises the Commissioner and City on transportation issues. He managed development of an agency-wide strategic plan and the transportation element of the City’s greenhouse gas mitigation plan and helps manage various […]

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Laura Bisesto

Laura Bisesto is a Public Policy Manager on Lyft’s Government Relations team.  Laura oversees political and policy strategy in the Pacific Northwest, Arizona, and California by advocating for Lyft’s interests with legislators and regulators on state and local bills relating to ridesharing. Prior to joining Lyft’s Government Relations team in 2015, Laura spent five years […]

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Nat Gale

Nat Gale works for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation in a lead capacity on outreach and programs that touch the everyday lives of Angelenos, such as the department’s award-winning People St program. His current focus is the city’s Vision Zero Initiative, where he works with a multi-disciplinary team to develop projects and partnerships that […]

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Kris Carter

Kris Carter, Co-Chair of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston, is a non-practicing engineer, an optimistic urban planner, and a self-taught filmmaker. Kris oversees the entire team, as well as Boston’s Autonomous Vehicle testing program, new mobility initiatives, and a portfolio of work to make our streets and sidewalks more delightful. New […]

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Evan Corey

Evan Corey serves as Seattle Department of Transportation’s New Mobility program manager, bringing experience in emerging transportation technology policy, shared mobility planning, shared mobility-transit integration, transit-orientation strategies, TDM, and Complete Streets design and policy. Evan provides a unique and holistic perspective to new mobility and its relationship to mobility, access, and right-of-way allocation. Prior to […]

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Shin-pei Tsay

Shin-pei Tsay is the Executive Director of Gehl institute, whose mission is to transform the way cities are shaped by making public life an intentional driver for design, policy, and governance. Previously, Shin-pei served as deputy executive director at TransitCenter and contributed to its establishment as a philanthropy. She founded and directed the Cities and […]

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Bridget Smith

Bridget Smith, P.E. came to the City of Los Angeles in July of 2015 from the cities of San Francisco and Sacramento and consulting, where she had over 25 years of experience in transportation planning and engineering, organizational management, and public finance. Bridget began her career designing traffic signals and major roadways before moving to […]

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Randall “Keith” Benjamin, II

Keith Benjamin serves as the Director of the Department of Traffic and Transportation for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. In his position he oversees all transportation maintenance, planning and partnerships at the local, county and state level. He is also the city’s representative on the CARTA Transit Board, Charleston Aviation Authority and the Berkeley- […]

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Lawrence Marcus

Mr. Marcus has been developing best practices for curbside management since experiencing the challenges as Arlington County, Virginia’s Transportation Engineering and Operations Bureau Chief. He initiated the development of ITE’s Curbside Management Practitioners Guide and has collaborated with ITE and NACTO to improve curbside management methods. Mr. Marcus currently chairs the ITE Complete Streets Council […]

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Timur Ender

Timur began working on tactical urbanism projects in 2014 with Better Block PDX.  In 2015, he successfully infiltrated City Hall when he was appointed as transportation policy advisor to City Commissioner Steve Novick.  In 2017, Timur transitioned to the Portland Bureau of Transportation where he helps manage Better Naito, one of nation’s largest tactical urbanism […]

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Río Oxas

Río was born x raised in Echo Park and has Central American roots. Río is People for Mobility Justice’s Building Power Director. As a Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) family we seed critical consciousness around Mobility Justice in all communities to ensure that everyone can move in public spaces with love and dignity. Since […]

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Perry Tarrant

Assistant Chief Perry Tarrant commands the Special Operations Bureau of the Seattle Police Department. Perry Tarrant has 34 years of law enforcement experience with the Tucson Police Department. He started his career working patrol, and also held assignments in canine, SWAT, bomb squad, aviation, and internal affairs. In 2014, Tarrant was appointed to coordinate the […]

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Gia Biagi

Gia Biagi is an urban planner and designer with experience in the private and public sectors who was appointed Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) by Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot in December 2019. The Mayor charged Biagi with implementing a vision for a transportation system that prioritizes equity and mobility and works to […]

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Kiera Smalls

Kiera makes sure everyone’s talking about Indego. You can find her at events promoting bike share or behind Indego’s social media accounts engaging with their awesome riders! Kiera also oversees 20 employees who make up Indego’s outreach and events team.  When she’s not promoting Indego, she’s leading bootcamps and run clubs throughout the city for […]

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Karla Sutliff

Karla Sutliff is current the Chief Engineer and Deputy Director for Project Delivery. She is responsible for all engineering aspects of the department’s construction projects statewide from their design through the completion of construction. She oversees the program of more than 9,000 employees and an annual budget of $1.8 billion. Ms. Sutliff has been with […]

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Ray Dovalina

Ray Dovalina is the Street Transportation Director for the City of Phoenix where he oversees five divisions with close to 700 employees, an annual department budget of over $70M, and a $500M five-year Capital Improvement Program. He brings 23 years of experience in transportation engineering and high level municipal management. Prior to this appointment he […]

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Danielle Abbott, Senior Program Manager for Commute Seattle, oversees the operations, staffing, and outcomes of initiatives aimed at reducing commute trips within Seattle. She manages programs that assist over 300 large and small companies in meeting regulatory, environmental and business objectives by supporting Commute Trip Reduction compliance and promotion of Employer ORCA Passport Transit Passes. […]

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Ryan Hashagen

Ryan Hashagen is a volunteer with Better Block PDX and a Professional Tricyclist based in Portland, OR.  Ryan is delighted to be a member of Better Block PDX team and enjoys working to connect, collaborate, and facilitate Tactical Urbanism projects with a wide range of organizations, businesses, and agencies. Professionally, Ryan has founded and run […]

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Sean is the Transit Planning Manager at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. He is responsible for implementing Muni Forward capital projects that improve service reliability, reduce transit travel times and enhance pedestrian safety, while also overseeing the day-to-day service planning functions for Muni. Sean and his team are in the process of implementing 36 […]

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Rubina Ghazarian is a Transportation Planning Associate II in the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation’s New Mobility Division. Her role includes implementing projects that enhance accessibility, increase travel options, and create livable communities. Most recently she planned and implemented the Downtown Los Angeles Bike Share Pilot Program, which launched in July. Before joining […]

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Sean has over ten years of pedestrian and bicycle planning, design, and implementation experience in New York and New Jersey.  Over the past nine years at NYC DOT he has worked on projects which redesigned city streets with an eye toward safety, mobility, and economic development.  In his current role he oversees a staff of […]

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Eric is the Senior Director of Transit Development at the New York City Department of Transportation. In that role he works to make public transportation in New York City work better through better street design and use of technology, and also serves as a key policy advisor on transit issues for the City.

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Tamika Butler

Tamika L. Butler is a national expert and speaker on issues related to the built environment, equity, anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, organizational behavior, and change management. From speaking, to writing, to training, Tamika has worked with a myriad of clients. As the Principal + Founder of Tamika L. Butler Consulting, she focuses on shining a […]

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David Kuperman

David Kuperman is the Program Manager of Transportation Planning in the Toronto Department of City Planning. He is a transportation planner with interests in all modes of transportation, and works together with the City’s transit agency on both localized and strategic initiatives to improve the performance of bus and streetcar routes, as well as on […]

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Dylan Passmore

Dylan Passmore is a Senior Transportation Design Engineer with the City of Vancouver’s Transportation Design Branch.  Over his career in the public and private sectors he has focused on pedestrian and bike infrastructure design, universal design, transportation master plans, policy research, urban design, and contemporary approaches to street design.  Currently, Dylan is leading a handful […]

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Justin Stuehrenberg

Justin leads the 5-year implementation of the $500 Million Marion County Transit Plan, the basis of a November 2016 referendum to increase transit service in Indianapolis by 70%.  This represents the largest infrastructure investment the City of Indianapolis has seen in generations.  Justin co-authored the plan itself, including leading all of the capital planning and […]

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Michael Carroll

As Deputy Managing Director for Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (oTIS), Michael A. Carroll, P.E. is a creative and nationally respected leader with more than 25 years of experience in transportation. In this role, Carroll leads oTIS staff in developing strategies and implementing policies to build a safe and equitable multi-modal systems across […]

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Tim Frisbie

Tim leads SUMC’s communications and policy efforts. He previously served as Senior Account Executive at KSA Public Relations/Public Affairs, where he worked on several transportation projects including helping to launch Getting America to Work, a national coalition advocating for increased federal transit funding. He also planned and executed strategic communications campaigns for clients such as […]

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Martijn Van de Leur

Martijn is Mobycon’s team leader for the Cycling & Behavior department and works within the fields of cycling, road safety and mobility management. Martijn studied urban planning, marketing and business management, which gives him a unique perspective for examining human behaviour as it relates to mobility. Mobycon is a participant in the Dutch Cycling Embassy. Dutch […]

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Bart Sbeghen

Bart Sbeghen is the Bike Futures Manager at Bicycle Network – a Australian health promotion charity who wants to make riding part of the everyday. He has been working on helping to get more people riding for more than 15 years. Bart started out as a bicycle “campaigner” initially. His focus is now on developing collaborative tools and […]

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Alexander Ståhle

Alexander Ståhle is a researcher in urban design and one of Sweden´s most popular lecturers on city futures. He is CEO of the urban research and design studio Spacescape in Stockholm and has a PhD in urban design from the KTH School of Architecture. In his research he has developed tools for urban analysis of […]

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Mariana Alegre Escorza

Mariana Alegre was born in Lima, Peru. She studied Law at PUCP, and has earned an MSc in City Design and Social Science (London School of Economics and Political Science – LSE). When studying for her first Master in Human Rights, she decided to promote Urban Rights. She has been involved in several research projects […]

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Richard Smithers

Richard Smithers has been Transport Policy Coordinator at the City of Melbourne for six years. He was project leader for the Council’s Transport Strategy 2012, its Walking Plan 2014 and its response to the East West Link road project. He has contributed to many other projects including the transport requirements for City of Melbourne’s urban […]

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Gustavo Partezani

Gustavo Partezani is currently responsible for the development department of SPUrbanismo, a public company that develops urban projects for the São Paulo Municipal Government, working in the areas of urban planning, infrastructure and mobility. During his career he worked in the areas of urban design and planning, focusing on streetscape and public spaces. He has […]

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Aman Batheja

Aman Batheja worked for eight years at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, most of that time covering state and local politics. A native of Cedarhurst, New York, he has an undergraduate degree in journalism and psychology from New York University and a master’s in economics from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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Nina Harvey

Nina Harvey is a Senior Planner in the New York office at Arup with over 7 years of experience in transportation planning, wayfinding, and master planning projects, primarily in New York, Washington DC, Toronto, and Houston. Her interests lie in designing context-sensitive solutions that prioritize the user experience. She provides project management and transportation planning […]

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Christoph Gisel

Christoph Gisel is a Senior Lighting Designer in Arup’s New York office. Prior to joining the New York team, he was part of the lighting design team of Arup Berlin and worked for different architecture and design offices in Europe. Christoph holds a degree in interior architecture and furniture design from Konstfack in Stockholm and […]

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Brian Stacy

Brian Stacy leads the Americas Region lighting group and has 20 years of experience designing lighting and related systems, for a range of exterior and interior environments in the urban, transit, monumental structures, and cultural sectors. His work has ranged in scale from large urban lighting masterplans, to iconic bridge and airport projects scale projects, […]

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Mike Trimble

Mike Trimble has more than 20 years of experience in public management and administration, serving government from both the public and private sectors.  He has served in executive leadership positions for both public and private organizations including The Brown Schools, Travis County, MTG Management Consultants, and for the past 10 years, the City of Austin. […]

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Joseph Jarrin

Joseph Jarrin is the Executive Deputy Commissioner at NYCDOT. In this role, Mr. Jarrin focuses on the agency’s strategic management challenges and opportunities, and works across all divisions to improve performance management and streamline project delivery. He directly oversees Human Resources, Facilities Management, Budget, Contracting, Capital Program Management, Information Technology, and the Audit Bureau.  Mr. […]

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David Vitézy

David Vitézy’s professional career began in 2004, when he became head of transport development at Budapest NGO Urban and Suburban Transit Association (VEKE). In 2010, David developed the concept for the new integrated transport and mobility authority, Centre for Budapest Transport (BKK) and was serving as the first CEO from October 2010 through December 2014. During his tenure, […]

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Daniel Firth

Daniel Firth is director of Mobility Pricing at TransLink and formerly Executive Director of the Metro Vancouver Mobility Pricing Independent Commission. He brings many years’ experience of designing, implementing and evaluating road user charging and performance parking systems in London and Stockholm, as well as experience of aligning and integrating mobility pricing with other urban […]

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Chris Morfas

Chris Morfas is Senior Advisor to Despacio, an NGO based in Bogota, Colombia. Despacio advances sustainable mobility internationally via research, advocacy, and training; its recent publications include robust studies of bicycle and motorcycle use in Latin America. Chris helps with organizational structure, program development, project delivery, and outreach. He will regale you with tales of […]

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Dustin White is a transportation planner for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency , where he has worked since 2005. Prior to joining the SFMTA, he was a consultant with Alta Planning + Design. Although he considers himself a Californian, Dustin grew up in Philadelphia and received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Bucknell […]

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Timothy Craggs

Tim, a licensed Civil Engineer, earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of California at Davis in 1979 and went to work for Caltrans in their San Francisco District Office shortly thereafter. Tim’s 36-year career with Caltrans includes stints as a project engineer in design, resident engineer in construction, and policy development and […]

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Erin Wood is a principal planner with the City of Austin’s Watershed Protection Department, where she has worked since 2005. Her projects include development of watershed regulations, modeling and analysis of policy impacts and alternatives, and nationwide benchmarking of environmental strategies. She currently serves on the City’s Core Team for CodeNEXT – a comprehensive effort […]

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Jane Kim

Jane Kim is the first Korean-American supervisor in the country, representing a diverse district encompassing the majority of new construction in San Francisco. She represents the highest and lowest income residents, and her priorities include pedestrian/bicyclist safety, preserving and building more affordable housing, funding public schools and parks, and addressing homelessness. Kim’s landmark initiatives include […]

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Ashley Z. Hand, AIA, LEED AP BD+C was appointed to the Transportation Technology Strategist Fellow for the City of Los Angeles by Mayor Eric Garcetti in August 2015 and is charged with developing a multi-disciplinary strategy to address mobility and transportation policies and services in a rapidly changing environment. With the proliferation of emerging sharing […]

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Jim is the Assistant Director for the City of Austin Transportation Department.  He works with some amazing people at the City of Austin and is responsible for the divisions that keep Austin moving on a daily basis:  signals, transportation management center, sign and markings and right-of-way management.  Jim also gets to work with some equally […]

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Ken Zatarain

Ken Zatarain is TriMet’s Director of Service Delivery. Ken has over 35 years experience in transit. He has held leadership roles in several projects, including design and management of Portland transit network, integration of five new rail lines into the system, design of the Portland Mall and coordination of land use and parking management plans […]

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Justin Holmes

Justin is Zipcar’s director of corporate communications and public policy where he leads efforts to promote Zipcar’s brand of “wheels when you want them” to Zipcar members, city leaders, media and other stakeholders. Leveraging his experience in technology as well as public and government relations, Justin works with cities and policy makers to help accelerate the […]

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Robert Spillar

Robert Spillar (Rob) serves the City of Austin as Transportation Director.  He organized the Austin Transportation Department (ATD) in 2008, growing the organization from just a few employees to the now nearly 400 public and private staff working to improve the safe and efficient movement of people throughout Austin today.  Rob’s responsibilities include the operations, […]

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Lisa Bender

Lisa Bender was elected to serve as the Ward 10 Minneapolis City Council Member on November 5, 2013. Lisa was reelected to serve her second term as  the 10th Ward City Council Member in November 2017. She was also elected to serve as City Council President by a unanimous vote of her fellow council members. Lisa has a […]

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Kristen Simpson

Kristen Simpson specializes in working on projects before they become popular, including managing exploratory phases of car sharing, bike sharing, modern streetcars, and now congestion pricing.  She helped create the SDOT’s project development division and currently manages a team that has secured more than $200 million in grants to leverage Seattle’s transportation levy funding.  She […]

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Chad Crager is the Manager of the Community Services Division at the City of Austin Public Works Department, which includes the Urban Trails Program, Child Safety Program, and Neighborhood Partnering Program. Mr. Crager has been an avid cyclist in Austin for more than 10 years and wears normal clothes to ride a bicycle. Mr. Crager […]

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Darby Watson is the Director of the Project Development Division whose task is to package, define, and develop all types of transportation projects for the City of Seattle.  For more than 17 years, Darby has strived to make streets more livable.  Her work has included design of full streetscape projects, managing Vision Zero and Complete […]

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Lori Ardito is an independent consultant with iDEKOgov. Previously, Ms. Ardito served as First Deputy Commissioner for New York City Department of Transportation, a role she was appointed to in May 2007. As DOT’s chief operating officer, she oversaw the divisions in the Department that ensure the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people, goods, and vehicles […]

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Mari Hunter

Mari Hunter is a senior transportation planner with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.  She studied Mathematical Economics at the Colorado College and civil engineering and urban planning at the University of Minnesota.  For the past 4 years, she has been working at the SFMTA as a project manager on multimodal projects and more recently, […]

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In July 2014, Al was named the FHWA Texas Division Administrator. As a key member of the Agency management team, Al exercises executive direction over the $3.2 B annual Federal-aid apportionment to Texas, one of the largest and most complex Federal-aid programs in the Nation.  As Division Administrator, he leads a multidisciplinary staff of 50 […]

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Gregory Fenves

Greg Fenves began his appointment as president of The University of Texas at Austin on June 3, 2015. Previously, he served the university as executive vice president and provost. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the highest national honor awarded to engineers in the United States, and holds the Cockrell Family […]

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Leah Bojo

Leah Bojo is the Entitlements and Policy Manager for Land Use Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in municipal land development entitlements. Prior to joining the company, she worked in land use and transportation policy through her work for two Austin City Council Members. Leah participated in a variety of policy initiatives that are important to […]

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Gillian Gillett

Gillian Gillett advises San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee on Transportation policy matters, with a focus on California High Speed Rail, Caltrain, BART, Bike Share, Autonomous Vehicles and Smart City issues. Gillian came to City Hall from the private sector, where she ran a custom software consulting company specializing in systematic redesign of business processes and workflow […]

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John Bela

John is an urbanist and public space designer.

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Mr. Simmerman has over 25 years of experience in disease prevention and health promotion. In that time he has provided project management, consultation and technical guidance to a vast number of stakeholders including communities, corporations and individuals. He’s a dynamic and motivational public speaker and is frequently asked to address healthy community design and activity […]

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Matthew is a creative urban place maker, real estate development strategist, and designer.

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Carlos Monje, Jr.

Carlos Monje is Counselor to US. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. He works on the administration’s proposal to reauthorize surface transportation programs, on the TIGER discretionary grant program, and on efforts to promote equity and economic development.  In August, 2014, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Monje as Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy. Monje previously […]

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Chuck Marohn, P.E., AICP

  Charles Marohn—known as “Chuck” to friends and colleagues—is a Professional Engineer (PE) licensed in the State of Minnesota and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Chuck is the founder and president of Strong Towns. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology and a […]

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Fiona Chapman

Fiona Chapman is the Director of Business Licensing and Regulatory Services with the City of Toronto – which licenses or permits 99 different categories of business, including the vehicle-for–hire industry. Prior to this, she was the Manager of the Pedestrian Projects Unit in Transportation Services and was responsible for implementation of the City’s Walking Strategy– […]

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John Eastman

John Eastman, AICP, CNU-A is a Project Manager in the City of Austin Public Works Department Sidewalk and Special Projects Division (SSPD). He manages planning and construction of sidewalks, urban trails, bikeways, and related infrastructure projects with a focus on implementing the Austin’s Sidewalk Master Plan and ADA Transition Plan. A graduate of the University […]

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Carli Paine

Carli Paine manages SFMTA’s Land Use Development and Transportation Integration work. In this role, she represents the City’s transportation values and priorities in large scale land use development project negotiations. Carli also oversees a team that focuses on transportation components of land use development projects, land use plans, and land use policies. She has a […]

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Alice Brown works at the Boston Transportation Department as the Project Manager for Go Boston 2030, the City’s Mobility Action Plan. Her recent projects include the Greenway Links initiative with LivableStreets Alliance, public process for New York Rising at Sasaki Associates, and infrastructure network planning for the Boston Bikes program. Her goal is to provide […]

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Terra Ishee

Terra Ishee has been engaged in improving the pedestrian realm in New York City since 2001.  She joined the New York City Department of Transportation in 2007, and is currently the Director of the Pedestrian Projects Group. Ms. Ishee oversees a multi-disciplinary team that designs and implements up to 40 street improvement projects a year, […]

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Christof Spieler

Christof Spieler, PE, LEED AP is Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars, where he does land use, transportation, and open space planning across the United States, and a Senior Lecturer at Rice University. As a board member of Houston METRO from 2010 to 2018, he initiated a blank sheet re-design of the entire […]

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Britt Tanner is a Senior Engineer at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), where she had worked on projects that use traffic engineering to improve Muni service for over 15 years.  She currently leads SFMTA’s Transit Engineering group, a team of a dozen engineers and planners developing traffic engineering projects to reduce Muni delays […]

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Hannah McIntosh

Hannah’s career spans public and non-profit leadership roles. Until 2016, Hannah led various aspects of the Seattle Department of Transportation’s work to serve the most rapidly-growing city in the United States, including roles as Deputy Program Manager for Waterfront Seattle and as Chief of Staff. After a working sabbatical spearheading a series of economic development […]

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Barbara Gray

Barbara Gray’s commitment to innovation drives her work as General Manager of Transportation Services in the City of Toronto. As Deputy Director of the Transportation Department in Seattle she led the development of the first city-wide Pedestrian Master Plan and Complete Streets policy and oversaw daily operations for policy, planning, and right of way management. […]

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Laura Dierenfield

Ms. Dierenfield leads the Austin Transportation Department’s Active Transportation and Street Design Division with a focus on improving mobility for everyone in Austin by providing safer and more comfortable options for bicycling, walking and accessing mass transit.  She brings 18 years of experience in transportation planning, public policy and community-based non-profit organizational leadership. Her team […]

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Lee Jones

Lee Jones is Director of Business Development for BCycle LLC. Based at the offices of Trek Bicycle Corporation in Waterloo, Wisconsin, USA, Lee has led the company’s sales and marketing efforts since its establishment in 2008. BCycle today has established itself as a globally recognized developer and supplier of both station based and “smart” bike […]

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Nathan Wilkes, P.E.

Nathan Wilkes is responsible for the planning, design and implementation of active transportation facilities and works in the Austin Transportation Department.  Over the past 12 years with the City he has helped Austin become a national leader in innovative planning, street design and bicycle network buildout with a focus on all ages and abilities. He […]

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Daniel Goodman

Dan Goodman is a Transportation Specialist in the Office of Human Environment at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). He leads FHWA’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Program and its Pedestrian and Bicycle Work Group and oversees the work of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. He serves as one of FHWA’s representatives on the U.S.DOT Pedestrian and […]

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On January 26, 2009, Shaun Donovan was sworn in as the 15th United States Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. He has devoted his career to ensuring access to safe, decent, and affordable housing, and has continued that effort in the Obama Administration. Secretary Donovan believes that America’s homes are the foundation for family, safe neighborhoods, good […]

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Michael Kimmelman is an author, critic, columnist and pianist. He is the architecture critic for The New York Times and has written on issues of public housing, public space, community development and social responsibility. He was the paper’s longtime chief art critic and, in 2007, created the Abroad column, as a foreign correspondent covering culture, […]

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Steve Adler

Mayor Steve Adler was elected Austin’s 52nd mayor in December of 2014.  Mayor Adler has lived in Austin for nearly four decades. He attended Princeton and the University of Texas Law School on scholarships, and he was the first in his family to graduate from college along with his brother. After moving to Austin and […]

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Annick Beaudet

Annick Beaudet, AICP has over 20 years of experience in both land use and transportation in both the public and private sectors. She currently serves the City of Austin as an Assistant Director at the Austin Transportation Department and oversees four areas: Systems Development, Active Transportation and Street Design, Transportation Engineering and Special Events.  

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Victor Dover

Victor Dover, urban designer and co-author of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns (Wiley, 2014), is an expert on how to fix our streets, and, in the process, shape enduring cities that people really love. For 25 years, Dover has been designing walkable, sustainable development. His work spans five continents and ranges from revitalizing historic […]

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Leah Treat

Leah Treat has dedicated her career to public service, primarily in urban areas. In 2013, Leah was appointed Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) by City Commissioner Steve Novick after a nation-wide search. The Bureau has more than 800 employees, a combined operating and capital budget of roughly $500 million and manages more than $10 billion in public assets.

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Greg Stanton was appointed the Mayor of Phoenix in 2011. He earned a law degree from the University of Michigan. Stanton then returned to Phoenix where he practiced education law at Jennings Strouss & Salmon and later practiced law at Quarles & Brady LLP. In 2001, he left private law practice to serve on the […]

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Rina Cutler is the Deputy Mayor of Transportation and Utilities for the City of Philadelphia. The Deputy Mayor serves on the Boards of SEPTA, DVRPC, the Philadelphia Port Authority and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation as well as the Schuylkill River Development Corporation. Previously she served as Penn DOT’s Deputy Secretary for Administration, the Executive […]

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Christopher Hayes is Editor at Large of The Nation and host of “Up w/ Chris Hayes” on MSNBC (Sat 7-9 am and Sun 8-10 am). From 2010 to 2011, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. From 2008-2010, he was a Bernard Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. From 2005 to 2006, Hayes was a […]

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Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of New York. He was first elected in November 2001, two months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a time when many believed that crime would return, businesses would flee, and New York might take decades to recover. Instead, through hundreds of innovative new policies […]

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Bruce Katz

Bruce J. Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and Founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program which aims to provide decision makers in the public, corporate and civic sectors with policy ideas for improving the health and prosperity of cities and metropolitans areas. Katz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.

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Lynn Peterson

Malcolm Dougherty was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to be the Director of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) in May 2012. He leads the $11 billion organization and Caltrans 20,000 employees who build, maintain, and operate the 50,000 lane miles of California’s world-class transportation system. Director Dougherty has over 21 years experience […]

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Phil Ting was elected to the State Assembly in 2012, representing the 19th Assembly District which spans the West side of San Francisco as well as the communities of Broadmoor, Colma, and Daly City.  He brings a unique combination of financial skills, a commitment to civil rights, and years of experience from local government service […]

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As Chief Executive Officer of Sound Transit, Peter Rogoff brings an impressive career of transportation leadership to forward the mission of expanding the regional mass transit system for central Puget Sound. Rogoff was unanimously selected after a nationwide search and came to Sound Transit in January 2016. Prior to that, he had served since July […]

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Ray LaHood became the 16th Secretary of Transportation on January 23, 2009. In nominating him, President-elect Obama said, “Few understand our infrastructure challenge better than the outstanding public servant that I’m asking to lead the Department of Transportation.” Secretary LaHood’s primary goals in implementing President Obama’s priorities for transportation include safety across all modes, restoring […]

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Mitchell L. Moss, New York University Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, teaches and does research on urban planning and politics, with special emphasis on economic development, telecommunications, and the governance of New York City. From 1988 to 2004, Professor Moss served as Director of the Taub Urban Research Center. He is […]

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As a professional transportation engineer, Chris works to create safe, reliable, and sustainable urban transportation options. He is particularly interested in the use of data and new technologies to reshape today’s transportation services. As part of his work, he is constantly pursuing new ways to harness data to change the way we make decisions from the strategic […]

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Michael Keating

Michael founded Scoot to bring fast, affordable, electric transportation to cities everywhere. Prior to Scoot, Michael built a successful open source public transportation software business at OpenPlans, and was a management consultant with GreenOrder and The Boston Consulting Group. Michael holds a BA from Wesleyan University, a Masters in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate […]

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Jessica Zenk

Jessica Zenk is Acting Deputy Director for the City of San Jose Department of Transportation, where she leads an exceptional team professionals planning, designing and building a more accessible and sustainable San Jose. Jessica is an urban planner with expertise in economic development, transportation, infill and redevelopment, and the arts.  Prior to joining the City of San Jose, Jessica directed […]

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Andy Thornley is a practitioner with the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, currently leading the SFMTA’s on-street car share pilot project, placing hundreds of shared vehicles in curb parking spaces across the city. Andy was part of the team working on the SFMTA’s SFpark program, an award-winning federally-funded pilot rationalizing the way San Francisco manages parking […]

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Lauren’s forward-looking perspective and broad public sector experience result in successfully implemented, bold projects. She is an industry expert on the intractable role of parking within the built environment and public health realms and provides expertise on multimodal planning and transportation management strategies. She has a passion for data-driven decision making and great user design, […]

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Jack Madans (Government Partnerships Manager) Jack’s work with CfA’s government partners ranges broadly from innovation policy and open data efforts to change management and community organizing. He cut his teeth as a community organizer early on when he founded the pilot project, FoodCycle, while studying at the London School of Economics. While interning at the […]

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Jay Nath became San Francisco’s first Chief Innovation Officer and White House Champion of Change after establishing the nation’s first open source government software policy and San Francisco’s open data legislation. In collaboration with the White House, Nath launched the Mayor’s Entrepreneurship-in-Residence program offering an on-premises incubator at City Hall, meant to apply startup ingenuity […]

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Julie is the Co-founder and President of Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator based in San Francisco. A nonprofit, Tumml’s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. Since Tumml’s inception less than two years ago, the organization has supported over 50 entrepreneurs from 17 startups, working to solve community issues from homelessness to workforce […]

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Gwyneth Borden is the former manager of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs at IBM and a member of the SFMTA Board of Directors in 2014. Ms. Borden has served in a variety of civic roles including serving on San Francisco’s Planning Commission and as a former aide to then Supervisor Gavin Newsom. In 2013, she […]

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Gabriel Metcalf is the President & CEO of SPUR, a nonprofit membership organization that promotes good planning and good government through research, education and advocacy. Under his leadership, SPUR has grown dramatically in influence and membership. Gabriel has authored or co-authored such notable articles as “The Northern California Megaregion,” “Civic Planning in America,” “Regional Planning without […]

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Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America. She recently served as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government, and is the recipient of several awards, including the Oxford Internet Institute’s Internet […]

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Jeffrey Tumlin

Jeffrey Tumlin is the director of strategy at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, a San Francisco-based transportation planning and engineering firm that focuses on sustainable mobility. He also served as Interim Director of the new Oakland Department of Transportation.  For more than twenty years, he has led station area, downtown, citywide, and campus plans, and delivered various […]

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Doug Weirsig is the Transportation Director for the City of Fort Worth. He holds three degrees in civil engineering: a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada at Reno, a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In over 30 years of work […]

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Linda Samuels is the Project Director of the Sustainable City Project for the University of Arizona. Samuels received her doctorate in 2012 in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on infrastructure as public space as well as the barriers architecturally-inspired infrastructure reinvention projects face on the path to implementation. […]

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On July 17, 2009, Victor Mendez was sworn in as the Federal Highway Administrator – the 18th person to hold the position. In this role, he oversees the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) 2,900 employees in Washington and field offices across the country and provides executive guidance on strategic initiatives and policy. As FHWA Administrator, Mendez […]

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Wylie Bearup is the Director of the Phoenix Street Transportation Department. He is a skilled engineer and has played a vital role in Phoenix’s most notable construction projects, including downtown centerpieces like the Phoenix Convention Center, ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, and Mass Communication and the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix Hotel. Bearup has more than […]

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Steve Novick grew up in Cottage Grove, Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon and Harvard Law School. He spent nine years as an environmental law enforcement lawyer at the U.S. Justice Department, recovering $129 million for taxpayers in the Love Canal toxic waste case, and securing judgments against violators of the Clean Air […]

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Mary E. Peters was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 5, 2006, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 15th Secretary of Transportation on September 30, 2006, after spending more than two decades crafting solutions to our nation’s toughest transportation challenges. Secretary Peters brings a unique perspective to her role as the […]

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Jeffrey L. Rosenblum, is a transportation planner and street design engineer for the City of Cambridge (Massachusetts). He is project manager for several corridor redesign projects including http://westernavenue.info which includes a separated bicycle facility and traffic calming measures, and represents Cambridge’s mode-shift interests in the many MassDOT bridge redesign projects currently underway. Jeff co-founded Boston […]

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Jon Orcutt

Jon Orcutt has nearly 30 years experience advocating and implementing sustainable transportation in cities.  Before joining TransitCenter in January 2016, he was a consultant working with governments, organizations and companies on urban transportation strategies, traffic safety, bike share systems and bicycle transportation improvements. Jon was Director of Policy at the NYC Dept. of Transportation from […]

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Tom Vanderbilt is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer whose work has appeared in Wired, the New York Times Magazine, the Wilson Quarterly, Smithsonian, the Financial Times, and many other publications.  He is author the NY Times bestselling book ‘Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us),’ published in more than […]

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Robert Paley is Director of Transit-Oriented Development at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority where he oversees development of MTA properties and works with regional and local entities to promote TOD and better coordination between local land use policies and transit.  Prior to joining MTA, Mr. Paley developed residential buildings near transit for several private real estate […]

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Nathan (Nate) Conable is the Director of Transit and Transportation for Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., the organization planning and executing the implementation of the Atlanta BeltLine, one of the largest, most wide-ranging urban redevelopment projects currently underway in the United States. The Atlanta BeltLine is a multibillion dollar project that will shape the way Atlanta grows […]

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John Robert Smith is the President and CEO of Reconnecting America, was formerly the Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, and is a long-time leader on behalf of passenger rail. He is co-chairman of Transportation for America, a former Chairman of Amtrak’s board, and a former member of the transportation committees of the National League of Cities […]

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Harriet F. Senie is director of museum studies and professor of art history at City College and the CUNY Graduate Center.  In fall 2000 she was visiting distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously she worked as Associate Director of The Art Museum, Princeton University and Director of the Amelie Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury.  […]

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Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek’s journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is the author of […]

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Javier Lopez

Javier William Lopez was recently appointed as the Red Hook Initiative’s first chief strategy officer, has spent the bulk of his career advancing racial, gender, social and economic equity for communities of color. Prior to joining the Red Hook Initiative, Javier served as one of the assistant commissioners at the Center for Health Equity, a […]

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Veronica Vanterpool

Veronica Vanterpool is Deputy Director of the national Vision Zero Network which works with communities across the U.S. to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safe, healthy and equitable mobility for all. Ms. Vanterpool is the former executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization, where she spent 10 […]

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Signe Nielsen, principal of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects has been practicing as a landscape architect for more than 35 years. For 30 years she has been a Professor in both the graduate and undergraduate Schools of Architecture at Pratt Institute. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Ms. Nielsen’s design work has received […]

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Ron Milam is the Principal-In-Charge of Technical Development with Fehr & Peers.  He is actively involved in a wide variety of project work but also finds time to: Co-lead the firm’s research and development efforts; Teach a UC Davis extension course on transportation and land use planning; Serve on the TRB Special Committee for Travel […]

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Joshua L. Schank is President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a non-profit foundation with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Schank, who is an urban planner, has worked on federal and state transportation policy over a decade. Before joining Eno, he directed the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan […]

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Serving as a coordinator and liaison between the Office of Watersheds and SEPTA, the Streets Department, the PPA and other agencies, Ariel Ben-Amos ensures that green stormwater management infrastructure is integrated in transportation infrastructure investments. Previously, Ben-Amos was a planner and analyst for the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities where he managed the development […]

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Jonathan Marvel was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He majored in fine arts at Dartmouth College and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1982. In 1986, he graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master of Architecture degree. Jonathan worked for four years in the office of Richard Meier on the Museu […]

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Rick Bell is Executive Director of AIANY, overseeing its operations and communicating its policies.  He is a registered architect and was elevated to the Institute’s College of Fellows in 2000.

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Steve Weissman teaches Energy Law and directs the Energy Program and oversees the City Streets Program at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law. In addition, he is on the summer faculty at Vermont Law School and at Lewis and Clark. He is also an environmental mediator. He is a former […]

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Reid Ewing, Ph.D., is a Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and columnist for Planning magazine. His street design work includes: context-sensitive highway design guidelines for New Jersey DOT; His street design work includes: context-sensitive highway design guidelines for New […]

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An avid bicyclist since she was five, Janine G. Bauer is now a lawyer and partner with the law firm Szaferman, Lakind, P.C., in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She focuses her practice on environmental, land use and transportation matters in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She is general counsel to the APA-NJ Chapter and a […]

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Andrew Howard is an expert in the field of context sensitive design and complete street implementation. During his 13 years of experience, he has worked in both the public and private sectors developing such plans and designs. Andrew not only assisted in the writing of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Recommended Practice on Context Sensitive […]

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Jessica Parsons is the Project Manager of Circle The City, Boston’s first Open Streets venture and a 2012 Urban Signature Project of the White House’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative.  Circle The City (CTC) launched in Summer 2012 and featured  temporary, car-free corridors connecting thousands of people to Boston parks.  Jessica works on behalf of a […]

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Georgia Petropoulos Muir has been the Executive Director of the Oakland Business Improvement District since 2004.  She provides the leadership required to advance the organization’s vision to be recognized as a vibrant and dynamic business district that sets the national standard for other commercial districts’ growth and innovation.  Prior to joining OBID, Georgia served as […]

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Tarun Kumar is a Senior Research Scientist for Smarter Planet Analytics Solutions at Industry Solution Research Department in IBM Research.  Tarun has 15 year experience is defining, architecting, building and deploying analytics solutions. His work has spanned across industries like supply chain, federal government, city & municipal governments and IBM business units. His experience enables […]

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Michael Littlejohn has significant senior leadership experience in the Professional Services, IT Services, and Training and Human Capital Services sectors. Currently, Michael is Vice President, IBM, Global Business, State of New York. Michael’s team is focused on developing, selling, and delivering solutions that help governments solve their most pressing issues across the missions of a […]

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As Executive Director, Christopher Levendos is responsible for managing the building and maintenance of Verizon’s core network and the building and maintenance of Verizon’s FiOS network across New York City. Key initiatives have involved a wide range of cross-functional technical innovations to speed up the New York City FiOS deployment and improve costs.  The New […]

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Jeff Owen

From within TriMet’s Planning & Policy group (in the Portland, Oregon metro area), Jeff Owen is the TriMet Strategic Planning Coordinator. This involves planning and coordinating the development of TriMet’s strategic and long-range goals and policies, and working to implement those goals and policies through federal, state, and regional partnerships and coordination. This includes environmental […]

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Julie Kirschbaum

Julie Kirschbaum, Director of Transit, joined the SFMTA in 2007. With more than 20 years of experience in the transportation sector, she was selected to serve as the agency’s Chief Transportation Officer in 2017 and was responsible for managing day-to-day Muni operations, leading a system-wide redesign and managing the Transit Planning and Scheduling Group. Prior […]

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Joe Iacobucci

Joe Iacobucci is the Director of Transit for Sam Schwartz, with a focus in the Midwest and West Coast, and leads the firm’s national Shared Mobility + Transportation Technologies Practice. Mr. Iacobucci has over 14 years managing complex, high-profile transit and transportation projects. His ability to manage projects through an implementation lens and communicate technical […]

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Jeff Boothe

Jeffrey F. Boothe is the President of Boothe Transit Consulting LLC (BTC). As a leader in the public transit industry, he has created a niche in surface transportation policy, developing a proven track record of successfully advancing public transit projects through the Federal project approval process. Jeff combines nearly 40 years of legislative experience, leading […]

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Jay Kriegel is a Senior Advisor at Related Companies where he focuses on business strategy and project development. Prior to joining Related in May 2007, Mr. Kriegel served for over a decade as Counsellor to the financial communications firm of Abernathy MacGregor where he focused on strategic communications with an emphasis on public policy for […]

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Chris Holben is the District Department of Transportation Bikeshare Program Manager. He has spent the last 10 years with DDOT working on bicycle projects including trail design and construction. He managed the construction and manages the on-going operations of the Bikestation at Union Station. He launched and operates the District’s piece the Capital Bikeshare program. […]

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Ms. Burnap has dedicated almost three decades to public and non-profit service in the policy, environmental and sustainability arenas.  She has the perspective of having worked in all sectors, in all branches of government –  for a Governor, a Mayor, a movie star, herself; in a State Capitol, City Hall, embedded in a large bureaucracy, […]

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Katherine Watkins is a Supervising Engineer for the City of Cambridge Department of Public Works.  She manages a group of consultants and engineers responsible for designing and constructing street, sidewalk, sewer and storm drain infrastructure projects.  She successfully developed and implemented the City’s 5-Year Street and Sidewalk Plan; prioritizing reconstruction projects with a strong commitment […]

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Rob Viola

Rob Viola is Director of Safety Policy & Research at the NYC Department of Transportation. He works within the Research, Implementation and Safety (RIS) unit, which identifies, designs and implements safety programs and street improvement projects on NYC’s streets, develops safety policy and manages crash data for NYCDOT. RIS has also taken the lead in managing […]

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Trent Lethco

Trent Lethco is a Principal and leader of Arup’s Integrated Planning Group in New York. He has over 15 years of experience working in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area He has led transportation planning projects both large and small most of which emphasize multimodal transportation solutions […]

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Valerie Fletcher has been the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Centered Design since the beginning of 1998. Valerie currently oversees a wide range of projects including a global web-based collection of case studies of universal design in the built environment, demonstration projects for a public school and a community development initiative that pair […]

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Janet M. Barlow is President of Accessible Design for the Blind.  As a certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist, she has extensive experience teaching street crossing skills to pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired and has worked for the past ten years on research related to accessibility of sidewalks and street crossings to pedestrians with […]

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David Weber is an entrepreneur, small business consultant and advocate. Weber is the founder and President of the NYC Food Truck Association (NYCFTA), which brings together small businesses that own and operate premium food trucks in NYC focused on innovation in hospitality, high quality food, and community development. Through his work at the NYCFTA, Weber […]

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Brett Burmeister, a Portland, Oregon native, is the managing editor and co-owner of Food Carts Portland, a resource for street food enthusiasts. He ate at his first food cart in 1991 and has never looked back, having logged roughly 1000 visits to street vendors in Portland and beyond. Brett has been featured by CNN, The […]

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Ms. Gabriela Juarez is a land use planner for the Department of City Planning for the City of Los Angeles.  Her current role in city planning deals primarily with processing entitlement requests in the Central City/Downtown, Westlake and Hollywood Community Plan Areas.   In the seven years she has been with the Department, she has also […]

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Joe Cortright is President and principal economist with Impresa, a Portland consulting firm specializing in regional economic analysis, innovation and industry clusters.  Joe is senior policy advisor for CEOs for Cities, a national organization of urban leaders, and is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He has served as an advisor to state […]

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Eric Lee is President of Bennett Midland LLC, a management consulting company based in New York City. Mayors and government agencies, as well as the nation’s largest philanthropies, turn to Bennett Midland for support with strategy, operational improvements, and the development of state-of-the art information systems. For fifteen years, Eric has developed innovative solutions to […]

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Ryan Russo

Ryan Russo has 20 years of progressively responsible experience in multi-modal transportation and city planning. He was appointed in May 2017 as the first permanent Director of the Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT). OakDOT pursues a vision of a more equitable, safer Oakland with improved access to housing, jobs, schools and services. It is responsible […]

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John O. Norquist is the President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism. John Norquist’s work promoting New Urbanism as an alternative and antidote to sprawl’s social and environmental problems draws on his experience as big-city mayor and prominent participant in national discussions on urban design and transportation policy. Norquist served as Mayor […]

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Jim Curtin is a Senior Transportation Planner for the Seattle Department of Transportation who studied planning and GIS at Northern Arizona University and the University of Washington.  Jim has led a wide range of multi-modal projects from capital improvements to traffic safety initiatives. He created SDOT’s Safe Routes to School program, developed the city’s first […]

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Christine Berthet serves as Manhattan Community Board 4’s First Vice Chair and Co-Chair of the Transportation Committee. In 2005 she co-founded CHEKPEDS (Clinton Hells Kitchen Coalition for Pedestrian Safety), completed the “9th Avenue Renaissance” study and has collaborated with the DOT on the Hell’s Kitchen Transportation Study, since 2007. Ms. Berthet serves on the boards […]

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Dr. Andrew Rundle’s research focuses on the determinants of sedentary lifestyles and obesity and the health related consequences of these conditions, particularly the role of sedentary behavior and obesity in cancer development.  Dr. Rundle directs the Built Environment and Health Research Group, a trans-disciplinary team of researchers studying how neighborhood built and social environments influence […]

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Joan Pasiuk has worked for the past 5+ years at Transit for Livable Communities (TLC), a nonprofit organization working to transform Minnesota’s transportation system through advocacy, organizing, and research. TLC promotes a transportation system that encourages transit, walking, bicycling, and thoughtful development. Joan directs Bike Walk Twin Cities (BWTC) as one of four sites of […]

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Ana Garcia has 15 years of experience supporting and advocating for community-based approaches to health at the national, state, and local levels. Her experience includes work with a variety of nonprofit and government organizations, including the Vermont Department of Health, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees in the […]

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James R. Knickman is the first President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), a private foundation dedicated to improving the health of all New Yorkers, especially the most vulnerable. Under Dr. Knickman’s leadership, NYSHealth has invested more than $75 million since 2006 in initiatives to improve health care and […]

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Known for creating logical and perfectly executed wayfinding strategies, master plans and environmental graphics, Ann Harakawa and Two Twelve have guided millions of people throughout New York City and the United States.   Specializing in complex, multi-stakeholders projects, Ann and her team have gained recognition by focusing on their clients’ priorities, consistently maintaining consensus, and […]

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In January of 2012, Martha was hired as the director of The Green Lane Project, a new effort of the Bikes Belong Foundation to catalyze the installation of cycle tracks and related state-of-the-art bicycle facilities in U.S. cities. Previously, she spent 7 years managing GO Boulder, the City of Boulder’s innovative program to make it […]

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Jessica Kwong covers transportation, housing, and ethnic communities, among other topics, for the San Francisco Examiner. She covered City Hall as a fellow for the San Francisco Chronicle, night cops and courts for the San Antonio Express-News, general news for Spanish-language newspapers La Opinión and El Mensajero, and was a writer and producer for Time […]

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Tom Maguire

Tom Maguire is the Interim Director of Transportation for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, with the City and County of San Francisco.  He oversees the nation’s 8th largest transit system, the Municipal Railway (Muni), and manages the transportation network of streets, bicycle and pedestrian safety, on- and off-street parking, and the regulation of taxis and other […]

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Michael Mikos is Director of Strategic Development of car2go N.A., LLC, a role he assumed in March 2013. In this capacity, Mr. Mikos has oversight of the development of all car2go launches in North America.  In addition, Mr. Mikos manages the development and integration of new Daimler mobility products, as well as strategic partnerships, and investments […]

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Bruce Schaller is the former Deputy Commissioner for Traffic & Planning at the New York City Department of Transportation. His responsibilities included development, installation and operation the City’s street infrastructure of traffic signals, street lights, traffic signs, roadway markings, on-street metered parking, municipal off-street parking facilities and DOT’s Traffic Management Center.  His responsibilities also included […]

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David King is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning. His research explores the impact of local transportation planning on the built environment, public finance and accessibility. As part of this research he has written about the phenomenon of cruising for parking and used spatial regression techniques to analyze travel behavior. He also studies how public […]

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Tim Love is the founding principal of Utile, a Boston-based architecture and urban design firm.  Love’s primary focus is the relationship between individual works of architecture and the larger city. He takes a strategic and collaborative approach to complicated urban projects – including charting and leading the public participation process and helping to bring together […]

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As Managing Director of Gehl Studio in the US, Jeff leads the San Francisco and New York based teams. In his time at Gehl, Jeff has worked with both public and private clients as well as non-governmental organizations in Europe, the USA, Latin America, India and China. Jeff’s background and design experience provides him with […]

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Steve is WSP USA’s (@wspusa) Vice-President and Northeast Manager for Planning, Environment and Traffic services.   Prior to WSP, Steve most recently served as General Manager of Transportation for the City of Toronto.  Prior to his tenure in Toronto, Steve led the Transportation Division of the Philadelphia Streets Department and was the Director of Policy and […]

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Vin Cipolla is recognized for his business and civic entrepreneurship, having achieved parallel successes in the private and public sectors. He has served on more than twenty-five nonprofit boards and nine corporate boards. A six-time corporate CEO, he has founded three successful companies in the media, marketing and technology fields, developing and overseeing global operations: […]

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Architect Gregg Pasquarelli received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University in 1994 where he graduated with Honors for Excellence in Design. He cofounded SHoP Architects in 1996 and has lectured, exhibited, and been published internationally. This think tank has pushed the designer’s realm past form making and into software design, real estate development, construction, […]

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Amanda M. Burden, FAICP, is Commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning. Since her appointment by Mayor Bloomberg in 2002, she has spearheaded the largest planning effort in the city since 1961, setting the stage for sustainable development, reclaiming New York’s waterfront, designing new parkland and public spaces such as the High […]

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Robin Lester Kenton serves as the Director of Strategic Communications for the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT). In her role, she oversees all of the agency’s public safety campaigns, as well as its social media sites. Under her leadership, NYC DOT has become one of the City’s leading agencies in engaging the […]

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Sarah M. Kaufman is a Research Associate at the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Management and Policy. Sarah focuses on the use of cutting-edge information technologies in transportation communications, particularly the implementation of open data and social media programs. Before earning her MUP at NYU Wagner and MBA at NYU Polytechnic, Sarah studied science writing […]

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Lynda Bybee currently serves as the Chief Communications Officer for LA Metro.  During her sixteen year career with the agency she has provided leadership for community relations, local governance, construction mitigation and outreach management for project studies and agency initiatives. In her current role as CCO, she oversees the promotion of Metro ridership and dissemination […]

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Dani Simons

Dani Simons is the Director of Communications & External Affairs for Motivate, the nation’s largest bike share operator, and the parent company of Citi Bike, New York’s bike share program. She was part of the launch team for Citi Bike and served as their Director of Marketing & External Affairs for the first two years […]

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Tim Tompkins has been the President of the Times Square Alliance since 2002. The Alliance is a business improvement district that works to improve and promote Times Square – cultivating the creativity, energy and edge that have made the area an icon of entertainment, culture and urban life for over a century. Prior to coming […]

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Jonathan F. P. Rose is the President and Founder of Jonathan Rose Companies. Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world.  In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a […]

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Peter J. Park is a city planner that has led innovative private and public sector practice for over 20 years. He served as the Manager of the Community Planning and Development Department for the City and County of Denver and was responsible for Denver’s planning, zoning, construction permit and inspection services.  Prior to his post […]

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Tom Jost is a senior urban strategist at Parsons Brinckerhoff, operating out of the New York World Headquarters.  Tom has spent his career exploring the drivers that influence urban development.  Tom’s focus is on solving the challenges faced by cities in adapting to climate change and a carbon-free economy. Tom has more than twenty-three years […]

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Margaret Newman, FAIA, LEED BD+C

With over 25 years of experience as an architect and urban planner, Margaret Newman has recently joined ARUP as an Associate Principal with the Integrated Planning team in New York. Prior to joining ARUP, Margaret headed up her own consulting firm More Urban, advising on design, urban planning, and development projects and served as Executive […]

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Jessica Scorpio is a Founder and Director of Marketing at GetAround, which was created to leverage the 1B+ cars on the planet to create a cleaner, smarter and more efficient transportation system through a marketplace for peer-to-peer car sharing. Prior to launching GetAround, she completed the inaugural Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University (SU ‘09), […]

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Sharon, a founder of SUMC, was previously the CEO of IGO Carsharing, the nonprofit organization that started car-sharing in the Chicago region. Sharon was CEO from March 2004 until she and parent organization, Center for Neighborhood Technology, sold I-Go to Enterprise in May 2013. Under Sharon’s leadership, IGO grew from a small pilot project into […]

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Mayor Anthony A. Williams is a Senior Strategic Advisor and Independent Consultant at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Mayor Williams served as the fifth mayor of Washington, DC from 1999 to 2007. During his two terms, he was widely credited with leading the District’s financial comeback and improving the performance of its government agencies, all […]

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Roy Kienitz is President of Roy Kienitz, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in policy, finance and project management for major infrastructure investments. Before starting his own business, Roy worked in and out of government at the federal and state levels for 25 years. Most recently he served at the U.S. Department of Transportation as Under […]

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Tyler Duvall is Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company in the firm’s Washington DC office. In his time with McKinsey, Tyler has helped develop the Travel, Infrastructure and Logistics practice and has assisted with on-going strategy work in Panama and the State of Georgia. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Duvall ran the policy office at […]

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Christopher P. Bertram is the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs, and Chief Financial Officer, for the United States Department of Transportation.  As Assistant Secretary, he is responsible for the development and oversight of the Department’s more than $70 billion budget and the oversight of the financial and performance management of 12 agencies and 4 […]

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Mr. de la Vega is responsible for leading the department as well as day-to-day operations. LADOT is a multifaceted transportation organization with over 1,700 employees and an annual budget of US$493 million (FY 2012-2013). LADOT enforces state and local parking laws; provides traffic control services to support public safety agencies and special events; designs, operates, and maintains the most advanced traffic […]

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Jane Martin AIA/ASLA/LEED AP is principal of Shift Design Studio, a San Francisco certified green business specializing in building and landscape design. She is an architect and artist whose work embraces all scales from urban planning to sculpture and performance. She has been named by SFMOMA as one of the Bay Area’s leading experimental designers. […]

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Mike Lydon is a founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative. Before launching the firm in 2009, Lydon worked for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ), an international leader in the practice of smart growth planning, design, and research techniques. As a planner, writer, and advocate, Mike’s work has appeared in or been featured by NPR, […]

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Since arriving in 2008, Ed Janoff’s primary responsibility at NYC DOT has been to oversee management and operation of the agency’s  growing inventory of public plazas – currently numbering 26 sites – primarily through public-private partnership agreements with local nonprofit organizations. He has also played a significant role in developing a range of other public […]

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Paul manages the Parklet program at the San Francisco Planning Department and is the lead urban designer for the Department’s Green Connections project—a citywide green street plan currently underway that seeks to improve access to open space by building sustainable corridors that facilitate walking and biking for people of all ages, reduce stormwater runoff, calm […]

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Jessica Wurwarg has a background in both urban development and food. Currently she is the Chief of Staff of External Affairs at NYC’s Department of Transportation and manages the Summer Streets Program. She is an Adjunct Instructor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and at the New School University’s Food Studies Program, teaching the courses on […]

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Luann Hamilton

Luann Hamilton has worked at the Chicago Department of Transportation and its predecessor agency, the Department of Public Works, for more than 31 years.  Since 2005, Luann has served as the Deputy Commissioner of the CDOT Division of Project Development.  She is responsible for Transportation Planning and Programming, Traffic Design, Livable Streets Implementation, Citywide Services […]

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Sameeh S. Barkho has been with NYC DOT since 1989, and for the last seven years, has been the Chief of Highway Design & Construction. He began his tenure with the agency in the Bureau of Bridges, moved to Geometric Design and currently manages more than 70 employees in his division.  His team is instrumental […]

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Randy Wade A.I.C.P. has been redesigning NYC streets as the Pedestrian Projects Group Director for the NYC Department of Transportation since 1997. She supervises a multidisciplinary and talented team of planners, engineers and urban designers seeking to improve pedestrian safety, increase accessibility and enhance the environment. She created the first “instant” public space in the […]

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Sam D. Zimbabwe is the Acting Chief of Project Delivery, a new position in DDOT that brings together planning, traffic engineering, transit, and capital projects. Equipped with a wealth of experience in urban design, bicycle and pedestrian planning and urban ecology, Mr. Zimbabwe guides DDOT’s development of the District’s multi-modal transportation network. Previously, Sam served as […]

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Allen J. Zerkin has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service since 1988, teaching courses on negotiation and conflict management. Since 1999, he has been conducting a popular one-day workshop on negotiation at the American Planning Association’s annual National Planning Conference. He earned his J.D. […]

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Eric Womeldorff, PE, Senior Associate with Fehr & Peers, has spent nearly the past decade focusing on the dynamic between land use and transportation in the often challenging political environs of the City of San Francisco and the greater San Francisco Bay Area region. His areas of expertise include the most advanced, state-of-the-practice transportation analysis […]

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Viktoriya Wise

Since 2015 Ms. Wise has served as the Chief of Staff for the Sustainable Streets Division of the SFMTA and is currently serving as its Acting Director. Prior to that, Ms. Wise spent 10 years at the SF Planning Department as Deputy Director of Environmental Planning and Senior Transportation Planner.  She served on the San […]

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Andy Wiley-Schwartz

Andy Wiley-Schwartz has nearly 20 years of experience working with cities and communities to envision and redevelop transportation infrastructure into public spaces, and helping transportation agencies change through new policies, programs and plans. Since 2014, Andy has been a consultant at Bloomberg Associates where he works with city governments on transportation and public space issues.  He […]

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Rich Weaver is Director, Planning, Policy and Sustainability, under the Policy Department of the American Public Transportation Association ( APTA) in Washington, D.C. He serves as staff advisor to the APTA State Affairs Committee, the APTA Policy and Planning Committee, and its subcommittees. He oversee the work of APTA Sustainability Committee and APTA Mobility Management […]

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Valerie Watson works for the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) as an urban designer and transportation planner. Valerie, along with her colleagues in the LADOT Active Transportation Division, works to promote implementation of pedestrian- and bicycle-focused design, develop active transportation plans and policies, establish effective partnerships within the City and with advocacy and community organizations, […]

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Chris Ward leads strategic growth and profitability of AECOM’s Design and Consulting Services group in the New York City Metro area.  Areas of responsibility include transportation, water and wastewater, environment, power, and buildings and places, which encompasses more than 1,600 architects, engineers, scientists and support staff. Prior to joining AECOM, Ward most recently served as executive vice […]

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Polly Trottenberg

Polly Trottenberg was sworn in as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation on January 27, 2014. Responsible for one of the largest portfolios of any municipal agency, DOT provides for the safe, efficient and sustainable movement of people and goods throughout the five boroughs. With an annual operating […]

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Saravana Suthanthira, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner with Alameda CTC, has over fifteen years of transportation planning and engineering experience. Her work focuses on congestion management, particularly performance measurement using big data. She recently led and completed a comprehensive performance evaluation effort of the I-680 Express Lane, the first Express Lane in the Bay Area, to […]

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Hermanus has experience in a variety of transportation studies for all types of roadways—from local streets to freeways—with a particular focus on conceptual and detailed geometric design. On such projects, Hermanus considers impacts to natural resources, constructability, phased implementation opportunities, traffic control, and cost estimating in establishing the appropriate improvements. He has developed master plans […]

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Richard Steinberg is CEO of DriveNow (USA), a flexible, premium car sharing program from BMW introduced to the U.S. market in San Francisco, exclusively featuring BMW ActiveE electric vehicles. DriveNow is designed to be as convenient as having your own car. Customers can take a drive on their own terms with more flexibility than traditional […]

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Tom Sorrentino is a Senior Project Manager with the Charlotte Department of Transportation (CDOT), where he manages and oversees the planning, design and implementation of a wide variety of new and retrofit “complete streets” projects. He was a key participant in the development of the city’s first Transportation Action Plan (TAP) and Urban Street Design […]

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Seth Solomonow

Seth Solomonow works in the Bloomberg Associates transportation practice, helping cities develop winning communications strategies around transformative projects. Seth was the chief media strategist for the New York City Department of Transportation department under Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Mayor Bloomberg and during a period of unprecedented change, helping message the addition of 450 miles of […]

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Lacy Shelby, Director of Resiliency Planning and Management, New York City Department of Transportation, has spent her career adapting aging infrastructure to the demands of a rapidly changing climate. In her former role as Director of Green Infrastructure, Shelby was a major force in the City’s plans for the reconstruction of critical street infrastructure following […]

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Susan Shaheen is a co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also adjunct professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She was the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, from 2000 to […]

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Stefanie Seskin

As Director of Policy and Practice, Stefanie shapes NACTO’s strategy to change the paradigm for city transportation policy and street design across North America. She provides strategic direction for NACTO’s technical design portfolio and guides major policy initiatives. She manages a multidisciplinary team of policy, design, and communications staff working to serve, empower, and partner […]

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Nicole leads Walk San Francisco’s policy and programmatic work, strategic communications, administration and operations. Nicole came to Walk San Francisco in 2013 with a background in active transportation, urban planning, and public health. As a consultant, Nicole helped develop climate change adaptation plans for the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Program on Health, Equity […]

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Sam Schwartz has nearly 40 years of experience in the field of Transportation Engineering and Traffic Safety and is considered a worldwide authority in traffic, highway, bridge, transit and parking systems. He was New York City’s traffic commissioner and the chief engineer for highways, bridges, ferries and other New York City infrastructure. Mr. Schwartz specializes […]

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Rebekah Scheinfeld

Rebekah Scheinfeld was appointed Commissioner of CDOT by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in January 2014 and directed to continue the critical work of making sure Chicago has a strong, vibrant, accessible transportation network that provides a foundation for a thriving economy in the 21st Century. An attorney, with broad experience in urban development issues, Rebekah oversees […]

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Rebecca L. Sanders, PhD, is a Research Associate for the University of Oklahoma’s Division of Regional and City Planning, where she studies the intersection of transportation and public health in the heartland. Prior to moving to Oklahoma, she worked for UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center for seven years, where she evaluated a […]

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Ilaria Salvadori is an urban designer with the City Design Group at the San Francisco Planning Department. She currently manages the Pavement to Parks program, a successful public space initiative aimed at reclaiming underutilized spaces in the city and turning them into vibrant catalyst places for San Francisco neighborhoods. While at the San Francisco Planning […]

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Mike Sallaberry is a certified traffic engineer who has worked in transportation for over 17 years. He started at SFMTA with the Bicycle Program then became the Traffic Calming Manager prior to his current position as the Senior Engineer for Livable Streets, which oversees pedestrian, traffic calming, streetscape, and bicycle projects in San Francisco. Past […]

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Matthew Ridgway, AICP, PTP, Principal with Fehr & Peers, has been involved in many of Fehr & Peers highest visibility and most complex projects. His key strength is his broad background and multi-modal approach, which he has applied to many large-area plans with transit and pedestrian-oriented projects. In addition to his work as a consultant, […]

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Seleta Reynolds

Seleta Reynolds is General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) appointed by the Administration of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Ms. Reynolds is responsible for implementing Great Streets for Los Angeles, a plan to reduce traffic fatalities, double the number of people riding bikes, and expand access to integrated transportation choices for Angelinos and the region.

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Kamala Parks has over eight years of experience and abilities in transportation planning and engineering for all modes of travel. Her primary work interests are focused on pedestrian, bicyclist, and transit travel. By extension, these interests have included work on safety, travel demand management, and multimodal analysis tools. She conducted research for the multimodal level […]

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Timothy directly oversees a team of 30 planning, engineering and policy staff and matrixes over 100 additional staff to develop and lead the implementation of the agency’s economically competitive, sustainable mobility goals through integrated, multi-modal (bicycle, walking, transit, car-sharing, parking and taxi) transportation plans, street design projects, and complete street project integration policies and programs. […]

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Margot Ocañas serves as Pedestrian Coordinator with the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). Margot’s work focuses on promoting pedestrian issues, establishing citywide coalitions and crafting plans and policies to support implementation of pedestrian improvements. In her role with the Active Transportation Division, Margot develops and implements infrastructural and programmatic pedestrian projects including […]

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Kevin O’Neill

Kevin O’Neill, AICP, is the Street Use Director for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), and manages work relating to right-of-way management and policy development, public space management, development review, and capital project coordination. Kevin has been at SDOT since 2011, and his work there has focused on strategic planning, development of modal master plans, […]

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Luis Montoya leads a section in the Livable Streets subdivision of the SFMTA, where he oversees the planning, design, and construction of projects to improve safety and promote walking and bicycling in San Francisco. In addition to planning and implementing a variety of projects, the teams Luis manages study emerging trends in complete streets design, […]

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Dr. Christopher M. Monsere is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science at Portland State University. Dr. Monsere’s primary research interests are in the areas of multimodal transportation safety; management and dissemination of large transportation datasets; and improvements in transportation operations. Dr Monsere is co-chair […]

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Katie Monroe is bikeshare outreach coordinator at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. Katie graduated from Haverford College with a degree in Anthropology and a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies, focusing specifically on the role of gender in Philadelphia’s bicycle communities. She founded the Women Bike PHL program and loves nothing more than seeing […]

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Meghan Mitman, AICP, Senior Associate with Fehr & Peers, has over twelve years of transportation planning and engineering experience, with a focus on active transportation planning and safety. She co-authored the multi-award winning California Pedestrian Safety Assessments Technical Guidebook, as well as the recent California Bicycle Safety Assessment Guidebook. She is also a co-author for […]

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Ethan Melone is the Rail Transit Manager for the Seattle Department of Transportation. He is responsible for all aspects of development of the Seattle Streetcar network, from planning and design through construction and operational startup. A twenty-year veteran of various City of Seattle offices, he holds a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard’s John […]

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Grant McInnes leads Arup’s Land Development offering in San Francisco and specializes in sustainable infrastructure planning, design and implementation. Grant has over 16 years of experience as a member and leader of multidisciplinary teams on a diverse variety of land development, master planning and civil engineering projects in the US, UK, Europe and Asia. He […]

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Linda is the Deputy Director of Transportation Engineering Operations Division and the City’s Traffic Engineer at the City of San Diego with a TE license. After 3 years as a Civil Engineer designing bridges, she has spent the last 27 years specializing in Traffic Engineering & Transportation Planning. She has worked in various capacities in […]

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Elizabeth Macdonald, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Departments of City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture/Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley and Vice-Chair of the Master of Urban Design Program. Her research focuses on the history of urban form, street design, and the post-occupancy assessment of streets and neighborhoods […]

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Ms. Lombardo was appointed Deputy Director for the San Francisco County Transportation Authority in May 2001 and Chief Deputy Director in 2004. The Authority is the sub-regional transportation planning and programming agency for San Francisco County. It develops the long-range countywide transportation plan, acts as Congestion Management Agency for San Francisco, and administers the Prop […]

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Jake Levitas is an organizer and designer focused on improving cities using design, art, and technology. He most recently served as an Innovation Fellow in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation, where he helped pioneer several participatory urban design initiatives, including Living Innovation Zones and the Market Street Prototyping Festival, to which he […]

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Lon LaClaire manages Vancouver’s Strategic Transportation Planning Branch, providing leadership and direction for eighteen transportation engineering and planning staff working on some of Vancouver’s largest transportation projects. Lon has an unusual mix of creative and technical skills. Using his high-school scholarship, he started his education in Fine Arts in College before switching to Engineering. After […]

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Scott Kubly

Scott Kubly has been Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation since July 2014. Before joining SDOT, he served as Deputy Director of the Chicago Department of Transportation, where he led the development of a financial plan for Chicago’s Riverwalk, construction of 65 miles of protected bike lanes, and the launch of a new bike share system. Prior to that role, he served as the Associate Director for the District Department of Transportation in Washington, DC, where he led the development of a new streetcar system and major expansion of bike share in Washington, DC. In these roles, Scott also managed agency operations, resource management, finance and development of major capital projects, as well as traffic management and signal operations.

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Gabe Klein

Gabe Klein is the former DOT director under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration in Chicago and former Director of the District DOT under Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. In Washington he launched Capital Bikeshare, the first large-scale bikeshare system in the US, and in Chicago he later launched Divvy, which is now the largest bikeshare system in the US.

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Andy Kosinski, PE, Senior Engineer/Planner with Fehr & Peers, has over five years of experience in transportation planning and engineering. He has worked on a wide variety of multimodal and transit projects in both California and the Chicago area and has amassed project management experience on a number of transportation studies in the Bay Area. […]

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Joseph Kopser is the CEO and co-founder of RideScout, an Austin start-up in the transportation industry. He is also Co-Chairman of the Defense Energy Summit (Austin, Texas 11-13th Nov 2013). Prior to RideScout, Joseph spent 20 years as Army officer after graduating from West Point as an Aerospace Engineer in 1993. Before, moving to Austin, […]

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On July 1, 2013, Brian P. Kelly was sworn in as the first secretary of the new California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA), which has replaced the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H) with a new agency focused solely on transportation. Kelly had previously been running BT&H since March 2012 when Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. […]

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Alicia John-Baptiste serves as the Chief of Staff of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Ms. John-Baptiste is an experienced public administrator with 15 years of service with the City & County of San Francisco. She has held positions of increasing responsibility in local government managing finance, information technology, human resources, strategic planning, and policy […]

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As the Chief Executive Officer of City CarShare, a Bay Area nonprofit, Rick Hutchinson brings over thirty years of leadership experience to the sustainable transportation marketplace. Emphasizing the development of market-directed and purpose-based organizations, he has led three companies and consulted in a range of industries and specialties. Currently, Rick is responsible for all aspects […]

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Hannah Higgins is a Project Manager at site design group, ltd. assigned to the Chicago Department of Transportation’s Streetscape and Sustainable Design Program. Her duties include overseeing streetscape and public plaza projects from the start of the design process through construction, and coordinating CDOT’s annual landscape maintenance seminar.She’s a registered landscape architect with experience working […]

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Frank leads the talented OpenPlans team, exploring how technology, planning, citizens, and government come together. He thinks we can make better places and beat climate change with the winning combo of planning, technology and public participation. Frank holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT. He blogs intermittently on open source planning, tweets slightly more, […]

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Sam is a user experience researcher and designer working at Code for America to build a new generation of urban planning software. Previously he worked NASA where he led an effort to redesign the 1990s era systems aboard the International Space Station with modern iPad and iPhone apps. He holds a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction […]

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Nina Haiman is the Deputy Manhattan Borough Commissioner at the New York City Department of Transportation. In this position she conducts outreach for agency projects such as protected bicycle paths, intersection/corridor safety treatments, and transit initiatives. Nina has an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University.

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Karen Haley is the Executive Director of Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc. She formerly served as the first director of the city’s Office of Sustainability. In the Office of Sustainability, which Indianapolis created in 2008, Haley oversaw activities like energy audits of city buildings and creating rain gardens. Haley has undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech in […]

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Vineet Gupta

Vineet Gupta is the Director of Planning for the Boston Transportation Department. In that role he has directed the City’s recently published transportation plan, Go Boston 2030, and its national award winning Complete Streets Guidelines.  His team implements bike lanes and Green Links paths; manages the Blue Bikes bike-share system; and redesigns major corridors and squares […]

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Chris Ganson is a Senior Planner with the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, working on issues at the intersection of transportation and land use planning. Chris’ recent efforts have included crafting the parameters of CEQA streamlining for infill and developing transportation greenhouse gas emissions quantification methodologies. Currently, he serves at technical lead for the […]

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Tim Frémaux

Tim Frémaux works as a Senior Transportation Engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, overseeing LADOT’s two San Fernando Valley District Offices. District Offices serve as the front lines for the Department, evaluating issues and concerns brought up by constituents, elected officials, and other stakeholders, and responding to those inquiries with transportation solutions. Tim […]

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Cara Ferrentino is a planner with the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Transportation & Utilities (MOTU). At MOTU she is a project manager for the city’s forthcoming bike share system, with responsibility for station planning, community outreach, contract management, and other aspects of program development. Prior to joining the City of Philadelphia, Cara served as a […]

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Ivy Dunlap, RLA, ASLA, is a landscape architect at Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services Sustainable Stormwater Division. Her recent projects — all of which integrate community-inspired design, public art, bike safety and sustainable stormwater landscaping — include Holman Pocket Park, Tabor to the River, and Dekum Stormwater/Art/Bike Corral. Ivy served as a policy advisor to […]

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Ann Marie Doherty is Senior Director of the Research, Implementation & Safety (RIS) Unit of the Transportation Planning & Management Division at the New York City Department of Transportation. Ms. Doherty is responsible for conducting complex planning and safety studies and developing safety programs and projects based upon robust data-driven analysis.  She oversees the planning, […]

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Jerry Dobrovolny is Director of Transportation for the City of Vancouver. He is responsible for the 300 staff who look after all aspects of transportation at the city including strategic planning, neighbourhood traffic calming, greenways and bikeways, parking enforcement, parking meters, street activities and festivals, traffic management, and blueways. He received his civil engineering degree […]

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Jennifer Dill

Dr. Jennifer Dill is a professor in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University and Director of the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC). TREC houses the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC), a national university transportation center, and the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation (IBPI). […]

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Richard A. Davey was MassDOT Secretary and Chief Executive Officer from 2010–2011. Secretary Davey leads a 10,000 person organization that operates with a single mission: to provide a safe, reliable and efficient transportation system for the citizens of the Commonwealth. Secretary Davey and his team are implementing a strategic investment and operations plan focused on the […]

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Nate is a Principal Landscape Architect at SvR in Seattle. He has been in practice for 14 years and received his MLA from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Nate’s work ranges from parks and trails to streetscapes and public works. Nate draws inspiration from the deep history of sites and their potential to serve contemporary […]

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Tiffany is a designer, researcher, and urbanist. Currently a Fellow at Code for America, she is passionate about helping cities become more innovative, accessible, and user-centered throuCh design and technology. Previously, she launched the UX research practice at Zipcar, worked as an innovation consultant at Continuum, and wrote for Dwell. Tiffany has a background in […]

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Gary Chen is a graphic designer at the San Francisco Planning Department working in the Information & Analysis Group. He is responsible for designing visual information in the form of infographics, mapping, and illustrations for the department’s various publications, presentations, project web sites and other public outreach. He has been with the department for over […]

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Alice Chen is a Principal Planner with Kittelson & Associates. Over the past 20 years, she has worked with several cities in California on their Circulation Elements of their General Plans developing policies and performance standards and then applying them through the environmental review process. Her recent work has been to address the state’s Complete […]

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Aleksiina Chapman is a graduate engineer for the City of Austin Transportation Department. She is responsible for the planning, design, and implementation of on-street bicycle facilities in Austin. She lives car-free in Texas and encourages bicycling as a normal part of everyday life. Aleksiina holds a degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University.  

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Dongho Chang

Dongho Chang is the City Traffic Engineer for Seattle. He has worked over 25 years in the transportation engineering field focused on improving safety and mobility for all travel modes.  Dongho has worked as the Traffic Engineer for City of Everett and Area Engineer for Washington State Department of Transportation where he was responsible for […]

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A member of the Lyft team since launch, Emily built Lyft’s community of drivers and passengers from the ground up. As Director of Community Relations, she manages grassroots outreach and accessibility initiatives. Emily currently serves as the founding Chair of the Sharing Economy Advisory Network for the National League of Cities. Before working in tech, […]

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Christine Calabrese, PMP, CASp, has managed the $180 million East Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Program for the City Of Oakland since 2012. Ms. Calabrese earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the State University of New York at Buffalo and honed her project management skills on major residential, hospital, and interior architectural projects […]

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Jessica Brooks, PE is the Manager of the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation Program for the Philadelphia Water Department’s Office of Watersheds. Throughout her career, Ms. Brooks has applied her engineering background to a wide range of water resource protection projects from the city block up to the watershed scale. Her primary focus at PWD is […]

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Dale Bracewell

Dale Bracewell is the Manager of Transportation Planning for the City of Vancouver (Canada). Dale and his team lead the citywide and community planning implementation of Transportation 2040, the city’s long range transportation plan for all modes, including funding strategies and coordination with regional and provincial transportation plans and policies. Dale previously led the City’s Active […]

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Gwyneth Borden is the former manager of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs at IBM and a member of the SFMTA Board of Directors in 2014. Ms. Borden has served in a variety of civic roles including serving on San Francisco’s Planning Commission and as a former aide to then Supervisor Gavin Newsom. In 2013, she […]

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Joshua Benson is Assistant Commissioner, Street Improvement Projects, at NYC DOT. Previously he served as the Director of Bicycle & Pedestrian Programs for the New York City Department of Transportation. He manages the DOT’s Bicycle Program, Pedestrian Projects Group and Office of School Safety Engineering. Mr. Benson has overseen the City’s unprecedented expansion of the on-street […]

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Urshula’s approach to design is informed by a multidisciplinary background that includes architecture, anthropology, communications, public policy and social history. Her background serves well P+A’s diverse projects and clients—they include archives, architects, artists, city agencies, foundations, libraries, magazines, museums, publishers, and universities. Prior to founding P+A she was a research fellow at the Center for […]

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Janet Attarian

Janet Attarian joined the City of Detroit Department of Planning and Development in June 2016. She brings 20 years of expertise in large-scale sustainable transportation programs from Chicago. Acclaimed as a promising and gifted innovator in design, management and policy, she forms part of the leadership team transforming Detroit.

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Allison Arieff is Editorial Director of the urban planning and policy think tank, SPUR. She is a contributing columnist for the New York Times and writes about design, architecture and cities for numerous other publications including CityLab, the MIT Technology Review and Dialogue. Arieff lectures and consults regularly on architecture, design, and media. From 2002 […]

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Michael Andersen suspects he might be the only person to hold simultaneous membership in both the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and the Online News Association. He moved to the urban transportation niche in 2010 after five years in daily newspapers. He’s the staff writer for the PeopleForBikes Green Lane Project, the news editor […]

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Ratna Amin leads SPUR’s work to create a high quality transportation system in the cities of San Francisco and San Jose and across the entire Bay Area region. Her areas of focus include growing transit usage, agency strategic planning, technology, and community processes. Her previous roles include chief of staff to the Oakland City Council president, […]

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Diana Alarcon brings more than 25 years of private and public sector experience to Ft Lauderdale in the position of Director of Transportation and Mobility. This newest of City department’s raises the profile of sustainable transportation policy, planning and engineering to an executive level in the organization. Fort Lauderdale is at the epicenter of South […]

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Robin Abad Ocubillo is an Urban Designer with the San Francisco Planning Department. He currently manages the City’s Parklet Program as well as other Pavement to Parks projects, while also coordinating human use studies of public spaces. His current and past scholarship has focused on the production and performance evaluation of small urban open spaces; […]

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Emily Snyder

Emily Snyder is the Urban Mobility Manager with Denver Public Works Transportation and Mobility and oversees the planning and multimodal transportation programs. She has over 15 years’ experience in transportation planning and project development, most recently serving in leadership role on the Mayors Mobility Action Plan and Denver’s GO Bond.

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Jamie Parks

Jamie Parks manages the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Livable Streets Division, which oversees the city’s programs for bicycle and pedestrian capital improvements, traffic calming,  bikeshare, and school crossing guards. Under Jamie’s leadership, Livable Streets has implemented over 11 miles of protected bike lanes in 2017 and 2018, overseen policy and legislative changes to integrate […]

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Peter Koonce

Peter Koonce, P.E., manages the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Signals, Street Lighting, & ITS Division and is responsible for the oversight of an annual budget in excess of $13 Million. He has served as an adjunct professor at Portland State University teaching graduate level courses in transportation engineering. He is a member of […]

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David Vega-Barachowitz

David Vega-Barachowitz joined the staff of NACTO in February 2011. From 2011 through 2014, he served as the first Director of NACTO’s Designing Cities initiative (2013-14), the Sustainable Initiatives Program Manager (2011-13), and a NACTO Fellow (2011). Under the leadership of former New York City Transportation Commissioner and then-NACTO President Janette Sadik-Khan, David shepherded many […]

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Mike oversees CDOT’s Bike and Pedestrian Planning and Design Programs and is involved in various other surface transportation planning projects. Mike oversees infrastructure work related to Chicago’s Vision Zero Initiative and has served as Project Manager for two major CDOT Bicycle Initiatives – Chicago’s Protected Bike Lane Initiative and the Streets for Cycling Plan 2020.

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Nicole Freedman

Nicole Freedman recently started working as Chief of Active Transportation for the City of Seattle where she is overseeing the expansion of bike share, creation of Summer Parkways programs, a new TDM 2.0 program and more. Previously, she worked as Director of Bicycle Programs for the City of Boston which was part of Mayor Menino’s […]

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Harriet F. Senie is director of museum studies and professor of art history at City College and the CUNY Graduate Center.  In fall 2000 she was visiting distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously she worked as Associate Director of The Art Museum, Princeton University and Director of the Amelie Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury.  […]

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Until very recently, Vaughn Bell brought art into the public realm as the staff artist at the Seattle Department of Transportation. She worked within SDOT for over four years, incorporating a variety of art and enhancement projects in the right-of-way as an art planner and designer.  In this unique position, Vaughn worked alongside engineers, project […]

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Wendy Feuer is the Assistant Commissioner for Urban Design & Art at the New York City Department of Transportation. The position was created to help realize the goal of creating world class streets and public spaces. The office launched the Urban Art Program in the fall of 2008 and has installed over 100 temporary projects […]

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Roger Geller

Roger has over 20 years’ experience managing bicycle capital, planning and policy projects. He possesses in-depth knowledge of design, policy, planning and maintenance relating to bicycle transportation. Roger has contributed to the implementation of hundreds of miles of bikeways, the introduction of many innovations to Portland’s streets and to the successful evaluation of their effect. […]

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Joseph E. Barr, AICP

Joseph Barr is the Director of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation for the City of Cambridge, where he is responsible for overseeing the operation of Cambridge’s streets, including traffic signals, signs and markings, street design, parking enforcement, and the city’s resident permit parking program.

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Josh Mello

Josh Mello, AICP was the Chief Transportation Official at the City of Palo Alto, where he supervised the city’s transportation division, which includes capital project planning, bicycle and pedestrian facility design, traffic signal system modernization, operation of the citywide shuttle system, parking management, traffic signs and markings, and the safe routes to school program. Prior […]

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Nick Falbo

Nick Falbo is a Senior Transportation Planner in the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Area and Project Planning group, specializing in the design of urban transportation networks, spaces for people, and multimodal complete streets. Nick contributed to and illustrated the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design guide, the standard for integrating bikeways into the fabric of American cities. […]

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Ted Graves

Ted Graves is the Program Manager of NACTO’s Bike Share Initiative, a multi-year, grant-funded program to evaluate best practices in bike share throughout North America, with a focus on strategies for reaching under-represented groups.

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Kate Fillin-Yeh

Kate Fillin-Yeh is Director of Strategy at NACTO, working on bike share, safety, and other policy issues. Prior to NACTO, Kate designed and implemented Citi Bike, the nation’s largest and most heavily used bike share program.

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Craig Toocheck

Craig Toocheck joined NACTO in 2014. He is one of the principal authors of the Transit Street Design Guide, and is now working with cities nationwide to incorporate the guide’s concepts in transit projects. Craig also helps plan and lead trainings and workshops, designs graphics for NACTO publications, and works with member cities to keep NACTO guidance on the vanguard of the practice.

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Robin Hutcheson

Robin Hutcheson is the Director of Public Works for Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is responsible for all aspects of the public right of way, including public utility and transportation business lines. Robin mobilizes multiple teams to leverage investments in infrastructure for broader City goals, including resiliency, mobility, and economic vitality. She is focused on transformative transportation infrastructure and systems with emphasis on equity, safety and preparing for change.

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Crissy Fanganello

Crissy Fanganello is Denver’s first Director of Transportation and Mobility overseeing transportation planning, engineering and operations citywide. Ms. Fanganello oversees the policy, institutionalization and implementation of the city’s multimodal vision as developed in Denver’s Strategic Transportation Plan (STP) for which she was the primary author.

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Danny Pleasant

Danny Pleasant, AICP, currently serves as Transportation Director for the City of Charlotte. He is responsible for the full spectrum of planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining city streets for walkers, bicyclists, transit riders and motorists. His department provides staffing for a three-county metropolitan planning organization and a fourteen-county air quality planning region. With his background as a professional planner, Danny is dedicated to building quality communities using thoughtful transportation planning and urban design strategies.

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Linda Bailey

Linda Bailey is the Executive Director of NACTO. Prior to this position, she was the federal policy advisor for New York City Department of Transportation for six years, where she was also a key advisor for NACTO. She has been working in U.S. transportation policy for 16 years, with a career that has spanned research, advocacy, and implementation, always focusing on sustainability within the transportation sector.

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